linux-kernel - Re: 2048 CPUs [was: Re: New filesystem for Linux]

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Message-Id: <20061110162021.504dc9e9.alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:20:21 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2048 CPUs [was: Re: New filesystem for Linux]


> 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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