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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 38 of 39] IB/ipath - More changes to support InfiniPath
	on PowerPC 970 systems
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:39:05 +1000
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On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 16:34 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 08:37 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > > +int ipath_unordered_wc(void)
> > > +{
> > > +	return 1;
> > > +}
> > 
> > How is the above providing any kind of serialisation ?
> 
> It's not intended to; it tells the *caller* whether to do it.

Ah ok. What barrier do you use for that ?

Ben.