Am Dienstag, 12. September 2006 11:01 schrieb David Howells:
> Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 2. All stores to a given single memory location will be perceived
> > as having occurred in the same order by all CPUs.
>
> Does that take into account a CPU combining or discarding coincident memory
> operations?
>
> For instance, a CPU asked to issue two writes to the same location may discard
> the first if it hasn't done it yet.
Does it make sense? If you do:
mov #x, $a
wmb
mov #y, $b
wmb
mov #z, $a
The CPU must not discard any write. If you do
mov #x, $a
mov #y, $b
wmb
mov #z, $a
The first store to $a is superfluous if you have only inter-CPU
issues in mind.
Regards
Oliver
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