On Saturday 08 September 2007 20:29, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:26:50 -0700
>
> Jesse Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > FYI, we just released a new white paper describing memory ordering for
> > Intel processors:
> > http://developer.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/index.htm
> >
> > Should help answer some questions about some of the ordering primitives
> > we use on i386 and x86_64.
>
> Nice - but it appears to be 64bit only - and indeed it appears to be
> untrue for real 32bit because of the Pentium Pro fencing errata.
As I said, we're not doing anything special in barriers for the ppro errata
today anyway.
> The kernel also runs on IDT Winchip, Cyrix and AMD processors not all of
> which have exactly the same behaviour (the IDT Winchip as we run it
> profoundly differs)
AMD processors guarantee loads are ordered and stores are ordered
(with exceptions of non-temporal, and non-wb policy).
As for the others that do out of order stores, are any of them SMP?
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