Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5

Lee Revell
2004-08-31T19:56:15Z

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:37, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i believe that the invalidations are excessive. It is quite likely that
> no invalidation has to be done at all. Does your box still start up X
> fine if you uncomment all those wbinvd() calls?
>

Commented out all calls to wbinvd(), seems to work fine. I even tried
repeatedly killing the X server before it could finish starting, no
problems at all.

I guess the worst that could happen here would be display corruption,
which would get fixed on the next refresh?

Lee