>>>>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:31:57 -0500, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> said: Jack> Maybe I was not clear. I *know* that memory attribute aliasing Jack> is a bad thing to do. I was commenting on Robin's mail and Jack> providing a real-life example on where/how it causes Jack> problems. Prefetching is a perfectly valid thing for the cpu Jack> to do. Any time there is a valid TLB entry, prefetching can & Jack> will happen. DONT allow a TLB entry to cover both cached & Jack> uncached pages. Sounds like we're in violent agreement! ;-) --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Apr 27 17:54:40 2004
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