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From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mantaining turnstile aligned to 128 bytes in i386 CPUs
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On 1/16/07, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> wrote:
> Kip Macy wrote:
> > x86 pre-P4 had 32-byte cache lines. Thus older processors will not benefit.
>
> But it does seem to hurt the performance a bit - maybe it's time to add
> another CPU option like I586_CPU and I686_CPU?

Unless there is a compelling reason not to do so, I think that that
would be a good idea.

   -Kip