> Am I correct? Or are there some easily-explained situations where mb()
> really should be used for inter-CPU synchronization?
Consider when one CPU does the following:
while(!spinlock_acquire()) relax();
x=shared_value_protected_by_spinlock;
We need to make sure we do not *read* the protected values (say due to
prefetching) before other CPUs see our write that locks the spinlock.
DS
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