Re: [patch] new spinlock variant, spinlock-2.3.30-A4

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sat, 4 Dec 1999 15:32:18 +0100 (CET)


On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Manfred wrote:

>processor ordering is only enforced on single cpu systems.

Of course this is the case for IA32, I didn't wanted to say otherwise. I
only wanted to say what the hardware should do to enforce processor
ordering in hardware. It's not impossible, btw.

Andrea

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