From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756975AbYCKU4x (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:56:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754814AbYCKU4p (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:56:45 -0400 Received: from extu-mxob-1.symantec.com ([216.10.194.28]:42171 "EHLO extu-mxob-1.symantec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754239AbYCKU4o (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:56:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:45:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@blonde.site To: Ingo Molnar cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: P6 NOPs again: MPSC? In-Reply-To: <20080311092843.GO25110@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20080304210111.GB31546@elte.hu> <47CDBE09.3060000@zytor.com> <47D59743.7040709@zytor.com> <20080311092843.GO25110@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Hugh Dickins 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 :-) :-) I durst not! Hugh