Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:48:45 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Uses for memory barriers |
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Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 03:51:29AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>If store forwarding is able to occur outside cache coherency protocol, >>then I don't see why not. I would also be interested to know if this >>is the case on real systems. > > > We are discussing multiple writes to the same variable, correct? > > Just checking...
Correct.
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