Re: TSCs are a no-no on i386

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 14:10:43 EST

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On Iau, 2003-07-31 at 19:37, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> I wouldn't be surprised if even real CPUs mis-decode when there's a
> concurrent DMA into the area they are reading instructions from! :)

I believe there is a PIII errata about putting an instruction across
a memory type boundary and executingit in a loop

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