Re: question on memory barrier

[Oliver Neukum]

> And you never even bothered to read what I said about that???
> The write ORDER will NOT change. Period. It's a FIFO. Writes

On current implementations of i386. That is not good enough.
We want code that works everywhere. You are wrong.
If you need to have ordered writes to a bus, use wmb().

	Regards
		Oliver
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