On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:29:28AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > - even when it works, it is necessarily very very very slow. Not to be
> > used lightly. As you can imagine, the work-around is even slower.
>
> i've measured it once, IIRC it was around 10-15 millisecs on normal
> pentiums, so while it's indeed the slowest x86 instruction on the planet,
> it's still perhaps acceptable for hot-swapping ECC RAM.
I can already hear the realtime crowd bitch ...
Ralf
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