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linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_barrier > > This is used to prevent out-of-order execution, not at all what is > necessary. I don't think memory barriers prevent out of order execution, just out of order loads and stores (which could happen on CPUs that do in-order execution). -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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