Re: 2048 CPUs [was: Re: New filesystem for Linux]

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Nov 10 2006 - 11:15:58 EST



> Intel only guarantees that cmpxchg (or any other instruction) completes in
> finite time, but it doesn't say anything about the result of it.

They don't even guarantee that... (hlt for example) or instructions SMM trapping into stuff that doesn't come back

</pedant>

Alan
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