Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 May 2005 11:33:32 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability |
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On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 01:56:36PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 18:44 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > then JACK is terminally broken if it doesn't have a fallback for non- > > rdtsc cpus. > > It does have a fallback, but the selection is done at compile time. It > uses rdtsc for all x86 CPUs except pre-i586 SMP systems. > > Maybe we should check at runtime, but this has always worked.
If this is critical for JACK, runtime selection was an improvement for distributions like Debian that support both pre-i586 SMP systems and current hardware.
> Lee
cu Adrian
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