> Intel486???, Pentium??, or P6 family processors. The P6 family processors > provide bus control signals that permit external memory subsystems to > make split accesses atomic; however, nonaligned data accesses will
Normally in standard SMP systems between CPUs they are atomic AFAIK (modulo bugs) You're right -- i'm not sure about P5 SMP. > seriously impact the performance of the processor and should be avoided > where possible. But they're also slow yes. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
