Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: spin_unlock optimization(i386) | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 1999 19:26:39 -0800 | From | Erich Boleyn <> |
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[I'm writing from my home system now...]
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> ... In most cases the only thing we care is the order of > _reads_ and of _writes_. Nothing more. It seems by reading your email that > we are wasting time adding explicit memory barriers with lock on the bus > to enforce ordering on IA32. So I believe we can remove them as the > hardware is enforcing ordering for us.
I believe so.
-- Erich Stefan Boleyn \_ <erich@uruk.org> Mad but Happy Scientist \__ http://www.uruk.org/ Motto: "I'll live forever or die trying" ---------------------------
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