Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael S. Zick" <> | Subject | Re: [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic | Date | Thu, 28 May 2009 08:29:13 -0500 |
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On Thu May 28 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > The observation that executing an unnecessary 'lock' opcode in some > > cases slows down the machine is not felt by myself to be significant > > to duplicating my observations. Note: I have been wrong before. > > > > This is as informative as I can make the message. > > > > PS: *not* a single machine failure, tested on five machines, owned > > by four different people, two brands, with different use histories. > > I have seen some problems on via c7m based machines, where some 'smart > bios person' implemented EC access in AML (normally, it is accessed > from ec.c driver). Maybe you have similary bad bios? >
How to tell or distingush? Did your looking at the dmidecode output show you that?
Mike
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