Re: Uses for memory barriers

[Alan Stern]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> How about ld_i(A) => ld_j(A)?  This would say that both loads corresponded
> to the same store.

> > How about this instead: "A==>B" means that B sees the value stored by A,
> > and "A==B" means that A and B are both loads and they see the value from
> > the same store.  That way we avoid putting a load on the left side of
> > "==>".
> 
> My concern is that "==" might also have connotations of equal values from
> distinct stores.

Okay, here's another suggestion: ld_i(A) <=> ld_j(A).  This avoids 
connotations of ordering and indicates the symmetry of the relation: both 
loads return data from the same store.

Alan

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