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From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 bitops.h commentary on instruction reordering
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 19:36:25 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4113A579.5060702@vlnb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040806143359.GC20911@logos.cnet>

Thanks.

One more question, if you don't object. How after some variable 
assigment to make other CPUs *immediatelly* see the assigned value, i.e. 
to make current CPU immediately flush its write cache in memory? *mb() 
seems deal with reordering, barrier() with the compiler optimization (am 
I right?). The similar memory barrier spin_lock() does, but it's not 
easy to uderstand its internal magic.

Vlad

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 06:17:04PM +0400, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> 
>>So, is there any way to workaround this problem, i.e. prevent bit 
>>operations reordering on non-x86 architectures? Some kinds of memory 
>>barriers?
> 
> 
> Memory barriers, yes, smp_mb(), rmb, wmb and friends.
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-05 20:06 [PATCH] x86 bitops.h commentary on instruction reordering Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-06 14:17 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2004-08-06 14:33   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-06 15:36     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin [this message]
2004-08-06 15:53       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-06 16:52         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2004-08-06 17:09           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-06 22:33             ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-08-07  1:01               ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-08-07 22:16               ` Alan Cox
2004-08-09 15:14             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2004-08-09 15:50               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-09 17:35                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
     [not found]                   ` <20040809183437.GD6361@logos.cnet>
2004-08-09 20:12                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2004-08-09 21:21                       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-10 12:28                         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2004-08-09 11:58         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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2004-08-09 21:23                       ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-10 12:26                         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin

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