ChipokiaTech news, without the noise
← All stories
Phoronix·

Linux 7.4 Adding New Emulation Function While Some Old CPUs May Soon Be Phased Out

Linux 7.4 is seeing a new emulation function added for cmpxchg() for compare and exchange. This is being done so that two-byte cmpxchg() can be used in common Linux kernel code that is already natively supported on newer CPU architectures. The pull request…

Preview courtesy of Phoronix. The full article opens on their site.

More from Phoronix