Re: [developer] Re: [smartos-discuss] TSX-NI support in illumos?

2016-07-21 Thread Robert Mustacchi
On 7/21/16 8:22 , Youzhong Yang wrote: > Thanks! Definitely it's something that I'd like to explore in our userland > application such as Samba. Well, be careful. Those instrs have a lot of erratum and break a bunch of observability. I'm not sure I'd use them, but if you do, I'd be curious to

Re: [developer] Re: [smartos-discuss] TSX-NI support in illumos?

2016-07-21 Thread Youzhong Yang
Thanks! Definitely it's something that I'd like to explore in our userland application such as Samba. On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Robert Mustacchi wrote: > On 7/21/16 7:36 , Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > No. > > Strictly speaking, they don't require kernel support, so you

Re: [smartos-discuss] TSX-NI support in illumos?

2016-07-21 Thread Garrett D'Amore
No. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 21, 2016, at 7:34 AM, Youzhong Yang wrote: > > Just curious, is TSX supported in illumos? > > "Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) is an extension to the x86 > instruction set architecture (ISA) that adds hardware transactional

[smartos-discuss] TSX-NI support in illumos?

2016-07-21 Thread Youzhong Yang
Just curious, is TSX supported in illumos? "*Transactional Synchronization Extensions* (*TSX*) is an extension to the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) that adds hardware transactional memory