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Revision 09df7c4c8097ca4a11393b1edd4997d786daad52 authored by Dave Jones on 10 March 2014, 23:32:22 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 11 March 2014, 17:16:18 UTC
This was an optimization that made memcpy type benchmarks a little
faster on ancient (Circa 1998) IDT Winchip CPUs.  In real-life
workloads, it wasn't even noticable, and I doubt anyone is running
benchmarks on 16 year old silicon any more.

Given this code has likely seen very little use over the last decade,
let's just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 09df7c4c8097ca4a11393b1edd4997d786daad52 authored by Dave Jones on 10 March 2014, 23:32:22 UTC
x86: Remove CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE
Tip revision: 09df7c4
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