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SubjectRe: Can and should the kernel HZ value be changed?
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 05:13:31AM +0000, Egil Kvaleberg wrote:
> It isn't that bad. Rather, I would think the main problem is SMP: on a
> Pentium any 64 bit would by nature be non-atomic.

On a Pentium, we have CMPXCH8B which is atomic. But there are 486 SMP
systems without it IIRC.

Philipp Rumpf

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