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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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In-Reply-To: <OF99CB0435.488D4308-ON88256AE1.0077A859@boulder.ibm.com>; from Paul.McKenney@us.ibm.com on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:47:05PM -0700
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:47:05PM -0700, Paul McKenney wrote:
> Just to make sure I understand...  This rmbdd() would use IPIs to
> get all the CPUs' caches synchronized, right?

No, it would expand to rmb on Alpha, and to nothing elsewhere.


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