Hi, noops with the registers contents, rather i think it is false considering bus operations in it. Am i rt/wg? Iqbal On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:19, Bryan K. wrote: > In intel documentation I 've seen that the instruction nop is an alias for > xchg %eax, %eax which is implicitly a LOCK instruction. This means that if > one cpu does nops the others cannot access the bus? Have I missed something? > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/