linux-kernel - Re: Uses for memory barriers

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Message-Id: <200609112148.42302.oliver@neukum.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:48:42 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	paulmck@...ibm.com
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Uses for memory barriers

Am Montag, 11. September 2006 18:21 schrieb Paul E. McKenney:
> 1.      A given CPU will always perceive its own memory operations
>         as occuring in program order.

Is this true for physical memory if virtually indexed caches are
involved?

	Regards
		Oliver
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