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It'd be really interesting to see whether the winning (losing?) instructions/strategies would be different on other architectures. At least right now the top sp
by achierius 1mo ago
It'd be really interesting to see whether the winning (losing?) instructions/strategies would be different on other architectures. At least right now the top spot (`fxrstor64` on MMIO, starve PCIe) seems relatively architecture-independent, but maybe something about MMIO ordering rules on e.g. POWER would be different enough to change that -- or perhaps open up new avenues?
I wonder what the actual limit on this `fxrstor64` is right now. If you can stall the PCIe bus for that long, then why not indefinitely? Certainly there's no forward progress guarantee here.
- inigyou 1mo agoI think the idea was to find a long instruction on an ordinary PC. Of course by adding special hardware you can stall things.