Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 05:49:10 EST


On Sad, 2005-04-02 at 05:50, Robert Hancock wrote:
> I'm wondering if one does a ton of these cache-bypassing stores whether
> something gets hosed because of that. Not sure what that could be
> though. I don't imagine the chipset is involved with any of that on the
> Athlon 64 - either the CPU or RAM seems the most likely suspect to me

The glibc version is essentially the "perfect" copy function for the
CPU. If you have any bus/memory problems or chipset bugs it will bite
you.

Alan

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