Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-mm1 boot failure on NUMA box. | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:54:33 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 14:03 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > I have no intent, nor method, of doing so. rdtsc is a direct instruction, > without intervention, as I understand it.
I thought so too, but it turns out the CPU lets you disable it at boot. This was suggested as a possible fix for the alleged hyperthreading vulnerability.
Lee
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