Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261571AbVEOJdi (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 May 2005 05:33:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261583AbVEOJdi (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 May 2005 05:33:38 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:6159 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261571AbVEOJdg (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 May 2005 05:33:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 11:33:32 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Lee Revell Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Alan Cox , Dave Jones , Matt Mackall , Andy Isaacson , Andi Kleen , "Richard F. Rebel" , Gabor MICSKO , Linux Kernel Mailing List , tytso@mit.edu Subject: Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability Message-ID: <20050515093332.GN16549@stusta.de> References: <20050513212620.GA12522@hexapodia.org> <20050513215905.GY5914@waste.org> <1116024419.20646.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1116025212.6380.50.camel@mindpipe> <20050513232708.GC13846@redhat.com> <1116027488.6380.55.camel@mindpipe> <1116084186.20545.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1116088229.8880.7.camel@mindpipe> <1116089068.6007.13.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1116093396.9141.11.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1116093396.9141.11.camel@mindpipe> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1085 Lines: 31 On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 01:56:36PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 18:44 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > then JACK is terminally broken if it doesn't have a fallback for non- > > rdtsc cpus. > > It does have a fallback, but the selection is done at compile time. It > uses rdtsc for all x86 CPUs except pre-i586 SMP systems. > > Maybe we should check at runtime, but this has always worked. If this is critical for JACK, runtime selection was an improvement for distributions like Debian that support both pre-i586 SMP systems and current hardware. > Lee cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/