Re: SMP spin-locks

From: Kurt Garloff (garloff@suse.de)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2001 - 12:35:01 EST


On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:26:05PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Question 2: What is the purpose of the code sequence, "repz nop"

Puts iP4 into low power mode.

Regards,

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Kurt Garloff  <garloff@suse.de>                          Eindhoven, NL
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