Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759043AbYHNRzf (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:55:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751460AbYHNRz0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:55:26 -0400 Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25]:32958 "EHLO tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751443AbYHNRzZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:55:25 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AswEAGgJpEhMRKxB/2dsb2JhbACBYrUWgVU Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:55:23 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Steven Rostedt , LKML , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , David Miller , Roland McGrath , Ulrich Drepper , Rusty Russell , Gregory Haskins , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" , Clark Williams , Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with preemptible kernel and CPU hotplug Message-ID: <20080814175523.GC4697@Krystal> References: <20080813234156.GA25775@Krystal> <48A375E3.9090609@zytor.com> <48A388CE.2020404@goop.org> <20080814014944.GA31883@Krystal> <48A3A806.8060509@goop.org> <20080814151805.GA29507@Krystal> <48A465BA.5050406@goop.org> <48A468F5.4050308@zytor.com> <20080814174612.GB4697@Krystal> <48A4700F.6030806@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48A4700F.6030806@goop.org> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 13:50:18 up 70 days, 22:30, 7 users, load average: 0.18, 0.69, 0.65 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 966 Lines: 28 * Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org) wrote: > Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: >> Here are the specs. It's a brand new 64bits dual quad-core (Christmas in >> August) :-) None of the specs seems to talk about neither Core2 or >> Pentium 4 though. Those appellations seems to hold for desktop >> processors, not server processors... >> > > Is it a Dell thingy? Turns out my main test box has exactly the same > processor. > > J Nope, it's a custom-made machine from a company in the Montreal area. It has a Supermicro X7DAL-E motherboard and, well, I got 16GB of ram in it. Pretty useful to take large traces. Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- 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/