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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:01:08 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> 
> This patch is fragile and looks pointless.

Why do you think it is fragile?  I don't see anything fragile in it.

> 
> What's wrong with the current status quo that just says "Athlon prefetch
> is broken"?

It doesn't fix user space for once.

-Andi