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Cc: Nick Evans <nevans@talkpoint.com>, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mantaining turnstile aligned to 128 bytes in i386 CPUs
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Kip Macy wrote:
> x86 pre-P4 had 32-byte cache lines. Thus older processors will not 
> benefit.

What about AMDs line of processors?