Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:37:34 -0500 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > smp_rmb() should not need to do anything because loads are done > in order anyway. Both AMD and Intel have committed to this now. > > The important point is that they *appear* to be done in order. AFAIK, > the CPUs can still do speculative and out of order loads, but throw > out the results if they could be wrong.
Is there anything even semiofficial from VIA? Not that the x86 architecture isn't pretty much definable as the AMD-Intel consensus...
-hpa
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