On Sunday 09 September 2007 03:48, Nick Piggin wrote:
> There is some suggestion in the source code that non-temporal stores
> (movntq) are weakly ordered. But AFAIKS from the documents, it is ordered
> when operating on wb memory. What's the situation there?
Sorry, it looks from the AMD document like nontemporal stores to wb
memory can go out of order. It is a bit hard to decipher what the types
mean.
If this is the case, we can either retain the sfence in smp_wmb(), or noop
it, and put explicit sfences around any place that performs nontemporal
stores...
Anyway, the lfence should be able to go away without so much trouble.
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