On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Bryan K. wrote: Hi, > In intel documentation I 've seen that the instruction nop is an alias for > xchg %eax, %eax which is implicitly a LOCK instruction. Locking is implemented if the operand is a memory operand. > This means that if > one cpu does nops the others cannot access the bus? Have I missed something? > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
