Re: P6 NOPs again: MPSC?

Hugh Dickins
2008-03-11T20:56:53Z

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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 :-)

:-) I durst not!

Hugh