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On 10/19/10 9:51 AM, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> Correct.  This particular system makes no guarantees that data flushed
> out through CACHE operations will not overtake subsequent uncached
> stores.

Thanks for the clarification, understood.  So we only need to take care
of the order of out-bound data write transactions at the processor end,
and preceding uncached load is not required here.   Sorry for the noise.

   Shinya