From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2048 CPUs [was: Re: New filesystem for Linux]
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:20:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061110162021.504dc9e9.alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611101606090.20654@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-10 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <787b0d920611041154l69db46abv4c8c467809ada57c@mail.gmail.com>
2006-11-04 22:36 ` Mikulas Patocka
[not found] ` <787b0d920611050802o460a4000r5ce154e589732a02@mail.gmail.com>
2006-11-06 1:47 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-11-07 21:26 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-07 22:36 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-11-07 23:14 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-08 18:26 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-11-10 9:03 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-10 15:20 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-11-10 16:20 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-11-12 14:28 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-12 20:07 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-11-14 6:24 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-11-08 3:04 ` David Chinner
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20061110162021.504dc9e9.alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--to=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=acahalan@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz \
--cc=pavel@ucw.cz \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®