Re: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Mar 08 2006 - 12:52:01 EST


> i386 does not fully implement things like write barriers since they have
> an implicit ordering of stores.

Except when they don't (PPro errata cases, and the explicit support for
this in the IDT Winchip)

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