The first installment of this series was an overview of memory barriers, why they are needed in SMP kernels and how the Linux kernel handles them [August 2005]. This installment gives an overview of ...

First, architecture basics are detailed with information on the register sets, data types, and memory and instruction formats. Next, instruction set extensions are detailed, which include Intel® ...

Socket 7 processors, primarily characterized by a common interface between the L2-cache bus and the main system bus, are available from AMD, IBM, Integrated Device Technology (IDT), Intel, ...