From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: paulmck@us.ibm.com
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Uses for memory barriers
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:01:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32145.1158051703@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060911162059.GA1496@us.ibm.com>
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 2. All stores to a given single memory location will be perceived
> as having occurred in the same order by all CPUs.
Does that take into account a CPU combining or discarding coincident memory
operations?
For instance, a CPU asked to issue two writes to the same location may discard
the first if it hasn't done it yet.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-12 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200609082230.22225.oliver@neukum.org>
2006-09-08 21:26 ` Uses for memory barriers Alan Stern
2006-09-08 21:46 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-09-08 22:25 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-08 22:49 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-09-09 2:25 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-11 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-11 16:50 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-11 17:23 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11 19:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-11 19:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-11 17:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11 19:48 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-09-11 20:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-12 9:01 ` David Howells [this message]
2006-09-12 10:22 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-09-12 14:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-12 15:07 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-09-12 16:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-12 17:50 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-12 14:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-12 8:57 ` David Howells
[not found] <20060911190005.GA1295@us.ibm.com>
2006-09-12 18:08 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-12 20:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-14 14:58 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-15 5:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-15 19:48 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-16 4:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-16 15:28 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-18 19:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-18 20:13 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-19 0:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-19 16:04 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-19 16:38 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-19 17:40 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-19 17:51 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-19 18:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-19 18:48 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-19 19:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-19 19:48 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-19 20:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-19 20:38 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-21 1:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-19 18:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-20 19:39 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-21 1:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-21 20:59 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-22 5:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-22 20:38 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-27 21:06 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-30 1:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-30 21:01 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-02 0:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-02 15:44 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-04 15:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-04 18:04 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-13 16:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-13 18:30 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-13 22:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-14 2:27 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-17 1:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-17 15:29 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-17 17:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-17 19:42 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-17 20:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-17 21:21 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-17 22:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-18 19:05 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-18 23:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-19 16:44 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-19 19:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-19 20:55 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-19 22:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-20 16:54 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-21 0:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-21 19:47 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-21 22:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-22 2:18 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-23 5:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-10-23 14:07 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-24 17:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
[not found] <200609081929.33027.oliver@neukum.org>
2006-09-08 18:06 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-08 18:22 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-09-07 21:25 Alan Stern
2006-09-07 22:10 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-09-08 18:39 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-08 0:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-08 15:55 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-08 18:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-08 21:23 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-09 0:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-11 16:05 ` Alan Stern
2006-09-08 5:52 ` David Schwartz
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