Re: Uses for memory barriers

[Nick Piggin]

Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 03:51:29AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > If store forwarding is able to occur outside cache coherency protocol,
> > then I don't see why not. I would also be interested to know if this
> > is the case on real systems.
>
>
> We are discussing multiple writes to the same variable, correct?
>
> Just checking...

Correct.

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