Re: [PATCH] Define flush_wc, a way to flush write combining store buffers

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On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:38:39AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> I think people already don't undersatnd the existing gazillion of
> barriers we have with quite unclear semantics in some cases, it's not
> time to add a new one ...

We went over the details of this in a pretty long thread, and you can't 
use any of the existing memory barriers to solve this particular problem.  
I think the definition of this one is well done now.

		-ben
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