[parisc-linux] Fun with RAID

Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:15:08 +0000 (GMT)


> I've pointed out to Matthew that using speculative loads (for PA2.0)
> would help to preload cachelines.

On the x86 athlon boxes it helps massively for memcpy performance too
as a lot of our page copies are not cache->cache. The other place Arjan found
was a big win which isnt yet mainstream is prefetching task structs in
the scheduler