Re: 2048 CPUs [was: Re: New filesystem for Linux]

[Alan Cox]

> 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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