Re: mips octeon memory model questions

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Still doesn't make sense, because if we need the first sync to stop
> writes from being re-ordered with the ll-sc, we also need the second
> sync to avoid the same.

Presumably octeon doesn't do speculative writes, only *buffered* writes.

So writes move down, not up.

But it looks like Cavium is one of those clown companies that have a
"contact us" button for technical documentation rather than actually
making it available.

Christ, why would anybody do business with a tech company that hides
technical details? Seriously, that just stinks of "we have so many
bugs that we cannot make the documentation available".

                  Linus
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