Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> ... In most cases the only thing we care is the order of
> _reads_ and of _writes_. Nothing more. It seems by reading your email that
> we are wasting time adding explicit memory barriers with lock on the bus
> to enforce ordering on IA32. So I believe we can remove them as the
> hardware is enforcing ordering for us.
I believe so.
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