> > basically we need no serializing instructions at all, because Intel
>
> May-be, unless you need to flush all buffered writes to memory.
? Unless this is PCI synchronization (which is a completely different
matter, outside the scope of the CPU), there is no need to flush anything
to memory, it's just as good in the cache (or in the CPU's store buffer)
as anywhere else.
-- mingo
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