Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2001 23:43:35 -0700 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion |
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:56:10PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > I somehow doubt that you need an IPI to implement the equivalent of > "membar #StoreStore" on Alpha. Richard?
Lol. Of course not. Is someone under the impression that AXP designers were smoking crack?
"wmb" == "membar #StoreStore". "mb" == "membar #Sync".
See the nice mb/rmb/wmb macros in <asm/system.h>.
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