linux-kernel - Re: P6 NOPs again: MPSC?

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Message-ID: <20080311092843.GO25110@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:28:43 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: P6 NOPs again: MPSC?


* Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:

> (But I've lost my way around here.  A good example of the 32/64 
> confusion is how one has to remember that X86_GENERIC is peculiar to 
> 32-bit, and CPU_GENERIC peculiar to 64-bit.  And CPU_GENERIC is 
> understandably an alternative to the specific 64-bit models, but 
> X86_GENERIC is strangely in addition to the specific 32-bit models.)

yes - this is one of the arbitrary deviations between 32-bit and 64-bit. 
Patches to bring the concepts and names in sync are welcome :-)

	Ingo
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