Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:06:39 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Runtime memory barrier patching |
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Such as removing the lock prefix when running non-SMP?
I think you should use a separate mechanism for that. It's really a separate issue, _and_ the replacement is actually quite different (and much more common, so you'd want to use a more compact data structure that is likely just the list of addresses of locked instructions).
Linus
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