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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 23:43:35 -0700
From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:56:10PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I somehow doubt that you need an IPI to implement the equivalent of
> "membar #StoreStore" on Alpha.  Richard?

Lol.  Of course not.  Is someone under the impression that AXP
designers were smoking crack?

"wmb" == "membar #StoreStore".
"mb"  == "membar #Sync".

See the nice mb/rmb/wmb macros in <asm/system.h>.


r~
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