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From: Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk>
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--On Friday, 12 October, 2001 1:43 AM -0400 "Albert D. Cahalan" 
<acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote:

> There is a memory barrier instruction called "eieio"

This must be April 1 by some calendar.

With a read/write here, a read/write there... (etc.)

Guess the engineer was called Mr/Ms McDonald.

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Alex Bligh
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