> >store of the counter decrement will leave the local cpu store buffer
> >in finite time (and thus be visible to the writer). [..]
>
> Hmmm, are you really sure? I thought there was always a finite deadline
> for a dirty buffer to be flushed to memory and to be made visible to all
> other CPUs.
In practice maybe, but in theory no.
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