Re: I/O write ordering

Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-23T01:58:20Z

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:19:57AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> And that wouldn't help vs. spinlocks which are in real RAM
> (we have a similar issue with IO leaking potentially out of locks,
> if we don't use some heavy barriers there too).

Yep, that was the problem that SGI wanted to solve.

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