Re: Spinlocks/semaphores jeopardized by intel P6 LOCK weakness ?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 19:39:24 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> ># define SYNC_OTHER_CORES(x) udelay(x+3) in irq.c and recompiling

> I am not sure about the deadlock you are talking about. [...]

It's old code - temporarily uncommented in the smp-2.3.29-B2 patch i've
sent. Will likely be removed altogether soon.

-- mingo

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