From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 06:49:53 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709080649.53876.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070908112922.3fd41adc@the-village.bc.nu>
On Saturday 08 September 2007 20:29, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:26:50 -0700
>
> Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com> wrote:
> > FYI, we just released a new white paper describing memory ordering for
> > Intel processors:
> > http://developer.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/index.htm
> >
> > Should help answer some questions about some of the ordering primitives
> > we use on i386 and x86_64.
>
> Nice - but it appears to be 64bit only - and indeed it appears to be
> untrue for real 32bit because of the Pentium Pro fencing errata.
As I said, we're not doing anything special in barriers for the ppro errata
today anyway.
> The kernel also runs on IDT Winchip, Cyrix and AMD processors not all of
> which have exactly the same behaviour (the IDT Winchip as we run it
> profoundly differs)
AMD processors guarantee loads are ordered and stores are ordered
(with exceptions of non-temporal, and non-wb policy).
As for the others that do out of order stores, are any of them SMP?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-08 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 22:26 Intel Memory Ordering White Paper Jesse Barnes
2007-09-08 8:54 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-07 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-08 17:34 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-08 17:48 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-07 18:13 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-08 8:53 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-07 19:57 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-08 10:19 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-07 20:32 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-08 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-08 11:34 ` dean gaudet
2007-09-08 12:08 ` Petr Vandrovec
2007-09-08 12:27 ` dean gaudet
2007-09-08 10:30 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-07 20:46 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-08 10:29 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-07 20:49 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-09-08 14:11 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-12 18:26 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2007-09-19 16:26 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-09-19 17:29 ` Andi Kleen
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