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SubjectRe: [PATCH] doc: memory-barriers.txt: Correct example for reorderings
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am really confused by the ordering of the new lines, as I would have
> > expected the "x"s to be replaced with "y"s and vice versa. But the
> > ordering of the various combinations does not matter, and each line
> > looks OK.
>
> Since x = A was replaced by x = B and y = B was replaced by y = A, I
> just converted all x = load A to x = load B. Similarly for y. I think
> we can do either this or as you suggested replacing x's with y's.

Fair enough. The other thing that confused me was the "STORE B=4,"
showing up early in your replacement.

Thanx, Paul



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