Bug 725538

Summary:	RHEL 6 is missing upstream backport to remove prefetch instructions.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Larry Woodman <lwoodman>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Larry Woodman <lwoodman>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
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Version:	6.2	CC:	bosun, kzhang
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Reopened
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Fixed In Version:	kernel-2.6.32-176.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Larry Woodman 2011-07-25 19:31:06 UTC

Description of problem:

RHEL6.1 is missing upstream backport to remove prefetch instructions from list macros.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Every time list macro executes it includes a prefetch


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

Prefrech slows down kernel by up to 1%

Expected results:

No slowdown.

Additional info:

Comment 4 Aristeu Rozanski 2011-08-02 13:58:33 UTC

Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-176.el6

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2011-08-17 09:05:22 UTC

Quality Engineering Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may
appeal this decision by reopening this request.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 13:54:25 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html