[PATCH] ARM: mm: enable L1 prefetch on Cortex-A9

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jun 15 08:15:53 PDT 2015


Hello,

On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:05:22 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> > However, can you consider my "ARM: smp_scu: enable coherent speculative
> > linefills", which has been sent almost three months ago:
> > 
> >   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-March/332106.html
> 
> I looked at that, and decided I didn't have enough information to know
> whether that's a good idea to apply or not for all the different variants
> we have out there.  It's something that needs to be merged early in the
> cycle to give it enough time to be (hopefully) tested by people.
> 
> A lot of these "enable optimisation X" patches need to go through that
> treatment.

Makes perfect sense. Can we get these "enable optimization X" patches
merged early enough in the 4.3 cycle, i.e right after 4.2-rc1 is
released?

Thanks a lot,

Thomas
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