Re: P6 NOPs again: MPSC?

Ingo Molnar
2008-03-11T09:29:19Z

* Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.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