Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86, acpi: Move acpi_initrd_override() earlier.

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Aug 23 2013 - 10:35:24 EST


Hello,

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 04:24:06PM +0200, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Well... relying on MTRRs is a big cost in complexity and failure modes.

Yeah, it's true that MTRRs are nasty. On the other hand, we've been
doing that for over a decade and are still doing it anyway if I'm not
mistaken. It probably isn't a big difference but it's still a bit sad
that this is likely causing small performance regression out in the
wild.

Thanks.

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tejun
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