> anyway, i'd be curious wether the attached patch shows any effect on
> machines that are affected by BogoMIPS irregularities. We cannot .align
> PAGE_SIZE due to ld limitations, but we can pull another trick to force
> __delay on a page boundary. (the current version wastes about 2000 bytes
> of nonswappable memory too)
Aligning to the least power of two larger than delay loop size plus prefetch
size seems to be sufficient, isn't it? I guess the linker should be able to
handle such relatively small alignment...
Have a nice fortnight
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