Re: Uses for memory barriers

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:07:28AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > How about ld_i(A) => ld_j(A)?  This would say that both loads corresponded
> > to the same store.
> 
> > > How about this instead: "A==>B" means that B sees the value stored by A,
> > > and "A==B" means that A and B are both loads and they see the value from
> > > the same store.  That way we avoid putting a load on the left side of
> > > "==>".
> > 
> > My concern is that "==" might also have connotations of equal values from
> > distinct stores.
> 
> Okay, here's another suggestion: ld_i(A) <=> ld_j(A).  This avoids 
> connotations of ordering and indicates the symmetry of the relation: both 
> loads return data from the same store.

Good point -- will try something like this.

						Thanx, Paul