Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:12:33 -0800 | Subject | Re: Fw: potential /dev/urandom scalability improvement |
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>>>>> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:33:03 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> said:
Andrew> If someone does, say,
Andrew> prefetch_range(some_pointer, sizeof(*some_pointer));
Andrew> then it is possible that prefetch_range() could
Andrew> a) execute a prefetch at addresses which are not Andrew> PREFETCH_STRIDE-aligned and, as a consequence,
Andrew> b) prefetch data from the next page, outside the range of Andrew> the user's (addr,len).
This is getting silly. Cache-lines _never_ cross page-boundaries.
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