On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > That would indeed be one approach that CPU designers could take to > avoid being careless or sadistic. ;-)
That'd be the easier (unique maybe) approach too for them, from an silicon complexity POV. Distinguishing between different CPUs stores once inside a shared store buffer, would require tagging them in some way. That'd defeat most of the pros of having a shared store buffer ;) - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
