Re: Pentium 4 and 2.4/2.5

From: Simon Kirby (sim@stormix.com)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 15:42:44 EST

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On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:47:40PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Ok. Issue settled. So 'rep nop' is safe. Ok that can get into the spinlocks
> for 2.2.18

Just curious... What does "rep nop" actually accomplish, anyway?

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