On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 09:43 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Tuesday 03 November 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

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(Though glibc can be nasty, afaik it might load up optimized

variants of

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some routines with hard wired cache line sizes based on the CPU

type)

You can also get application with hand-coded cache optimizations
that are even harder, if not impossible, to fix. 

Right. But those are already broken across CPU variants anyways.

Cheers,
Ben