* David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, to reiterate, I think you should kill all the list handling > prefetches off. Agreed. > What we can do is say "for this specific list use, prefetch does > in fact help". And provide an interface for that. I imagine there > are things like inode dirty writeback or some dcache stuff that > walks large lists and for which prefetch might be appropriate. I think the best 'interface' for that is to open-code the prefetch() right into the loop. This way it becomes well documented and very visible as well. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
