Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

[H. Peter Anvin]

Nick Piggin wrote:
> smp_rmb() should not need to do anything because loads are done
> in order anyway. Both AMD and Intel have committed to this now.
>
> The important point is that they *appear* to be done in order. AFAIK,
> the CPUs can still do speculative and out of order loads, but throw
> out the results if they could be wrong.

Is there anything even semiofficial from VIA?  Not that the x86 
architecture isn't pretty much definable as the AMD-Intel consensus...

	-hpa

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