>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? > I think that "xchgl %eax, %eax" instruction is an alias for the nop instruction, and nop is not an alias for xchg eax, eax madsys -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
