Antonio Vargas writes: > Don't know exactly about power5, but G5 processor is described on IBM > docs as doing automatic whole-page prefetch read-ahead when detecting > linear accesses.
Sure, but linked lists would rarely be laid out linearly in memory. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/