On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Why do you care about performance when PAT is disabled?
It will regress already slow boxes. We blacklist a LOT of P4s, PMs, etc and nobody ever took the pain to track down which ones of those actually have PAT+MTRR aliasing bugs. These boxes have boards like the Radeon X300, which needs either PAT or MTRR to not become unusable... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
