On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:07:00PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Is this any good? > > The counter argument would be that one might prefetch a > spinlock in the head of a data structure, and expect > the rest of the cacheline to be in cache as well. Though > in that case, maybe prefetch/prefetchw should be used > instead.
Can you describe what the supposed improvement of the patch is? -Andi
