On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Most of this is correct, except that mb() is stronger than just rmb()
> and wmb() put together. All memory operations before the mb() will
> complete before any operations after the mb(). A better way to
> understand this is to look at the sparc64 definition:
>
> #define mb() \
> membar_safe("#LoadLoad | #LoadStore | #StoreStore | #StoreLoad")
Thanks for the explanation. Is there any appropriate place, say in
Documentation/, where these things could be spelled out more completely?
Alan Stern
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