On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:48 pm, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> The first register write will be completed before the second register
> write because you use writel, which is defined to have the semantics
> you want. (It uses a platform-specific method to guarantee this,
> possibly "volatile" or "asm("eieio")" or whatever method your platform
> requires.)
writel() ensures ordering? Only from one CPU, another CPU issuing a
write at some later time may have its write arrive first. See
Documentation/io_ordering.txt for some documentation I put together on
this issue.
Jesse
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