RE: Show stopper bugs for 5.0

[Tim Rightnour <root%garbled.net@localhost>]

On 20-May-2008 Michael Lorenz wrote:
> - - at least on my 2x 7400 I need additional cache flushes in ld.so,  
> otherwise the CPU occasionally tries to use reloc entries not yet  
> written into memory which leads to userland crashes. Doesn't seem to  
> happen with 745x CPUs, others with 7400s have reported the same  
> problem. I'll check if it still happens, if it does we'll need to  
> think about a proper solution here.

Whats the rationale for not adding those cache flushes in?  Does it cause a
significant slowdown?  If so, how much?  Would you be willing to run a
bytebench with and without the fix and post the results?  If its a minor
slowdown, I'm inclined to just do it, maybe with an option to disable?

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