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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: moreau francis <francis_moreau2000@yahoo.fr>,
	"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question on memory barrier
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:53:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508241253.53586.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050824194836.GA26526@hexapodia.org>

On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:48 pm, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> The first register write will be completed before the second register
> write because you use writel, which is defined to have the semantics
> you want.  (It uses a platform-specific method to guarantee this,
> possibly "volatile" or "asm("eieio")" or whatever method your platform
> requires.)

writel() ensures ordering?  Only from one CPU, another CPU issuing a 
write at some later time may have its write arrive first.  See 
Documentation/io_ordering.txt for some documentation I put together on 
this issue.

Jesse

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-24 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-24 12:43 question on memory barrier moreau francis
2005-08-24 13:04 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-24 17:31   ` moreau francis
2005-08-24 18:22     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-24 19:32       ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-24 19:47         ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-24 19:55           ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-24 19:48     ` Andy Isaacson
2005-08-24 19:53       ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2005-08-24 21:45         ` Alan Cox
2005-08-24 21:22           ` Jesse Barnes
2005-08-24 20:03       ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-24 20:21         ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-25  2:25         ` David Schwartz
2005-08-25  8:49       ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-08-25  9:14       ` moreau francis
2005-08-25 10:07         ` Alan Cox
2005-08-25 14:54         ` Andy Isaacson
2005-08-26  7:21           ` moreau francis
2005-08-26 10:37             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-08-25 10:32       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-08-24 21:57 ` Alan Cox

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