Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965079AbWILI6H (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:58:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965148AbWILI6H (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:58:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48025 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965079AbWILI6E (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:58:04 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: To: Alan Stern Cc: Oliver Neukum , paulmck@us.ibm.com, David Howells , Kernel development list Subject: Re: Uses for memory barriers X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:57:39 +0100 Message-ID: <31512.1158051459@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 419 Lines: 13 I'd state it as: mb() _implies_ both rmb() and wmb(), but is more complete than both since it _also_ partially orders reads and writes with respect to each other. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/