Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:28:43 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: P6 NOPs again: MPSC? |
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* Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> (But I've lost my way around here. A good example of the 32/64 > confusion is how one has to remember that X86_GENERIC is peculiar to > 32-bit, and CPU_GENERIC peculiar to 64-bit. And CPU_GENERIC is > understandably an alternative to the specific 64-bit models, but > X86_GENERIC is strangely in addition to the specific 32-bit models.)
yes - this is one of the arbitrary deviations between 32-bit and 64-bit. Patches to bring the concepts and names in sync are welcome :-)
Ingo
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