Re: [PATCH] Define flush_wc, a way to flush write combining storebuffers

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2006-03-08 at 13:31 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> flush_wc() says nothing about whether {A,B,C} may be reordered with
> respect to each other, or whether {D,E} may, but it guarantees that
> {A,B,C} will make it off-CPU before {D,E}.  An arch that implements
> flush_wc() should make the stores occur immediately, if possible.

How is this different to mmiowb() ?


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