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    [PATCH] cciss: disble prefetching in ASIC · 5a848d7d
    Andrew Morton authored
    From: mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net
    
    This patch addresses a bug in the ASIC on the 6400 series controllers.  When
    prefetching from host memory we grab an extra 750 or so bytes of data.  If
    this occurs on a memory boundary the machine will MCA.  This bug affects IPF
    and Alpha based platforms.  It is not known to be a problem on x86.
    
    Prefetch will be disabled via the f/w.  We need to enable it on x86 to
    address a _big_ performance hit on RAID 1 operations.
    
    It is in the 2.4 tree.
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