Re: mips octeon memory model questions

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:16:58AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Peter Zijlstra
> >
> >> So writes move down, not up.
> >
> > Right, but the ll-sc store might move down over a later store.
> 
> Unlikely. The thing is, in order for the sc to succeed, it has to
> already have hit the cache coherency domain (or at least reserved it -
> ie maybe the value is not actually *in* the cache, but the sc needs to
> have gotten exclusive access to the cacheline).
> 
> So just how do you expect a later store (that is *after* the
> conditional branch that tests the result of the sc) to move up before
> it?

Ah, I completely overlooked the control dependency to the subsequent
store.

Yes, given that this makes sense.
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