Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race withpreemptible kernel and CPU hotplug

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Thu Aug 14 2008 - 13:55:38 EST


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> Here are the specs. It's a brand new 64bits dual quad-core (Christmas in
>> August) :-) None of the specs seems to talk about neither Core2 or
>> Pentium 4 though. Those appellations seems to hold for desktop
>> processors, not server processors...
>>
>
> Is it a Dell thingy? Turns out my main test box has exactly the same
> processor.
>
> J

Nope, it's a custom-made machine from a company in the Montreal area. It
has a Supermicro X7DAL-E motherboard and, well, I got 16GB of ram in it.
Pretty useful to take large traces.

Mathieu


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