ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.

[Oliver Fromme]

Sergey Zaharchenko wrote:
 > Hello Oliver!
 > 
 > Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:52:45PM +0200 you wrote:
 > > Using cmpxchg8b with a lock prefix wouldn't be a good idea
 > > anyway.  If I remember correctly, the lock cmpxchg8b
 > > combination was the cause of the infamous "F00F" bug of
 > > old Pentium processors.  It causes them to freeze.
 > 
 > AFAICT the bug only manifested itself when the instruction had an
 > invalid register operand:
 > 
 > www.intel.com/support/processors/pentium/ppiie/ :

Ah, that's good then.  Thanks for the clarification!

Best regards
   Oliver

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