[PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #2]

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Mar 9 05:59:53 EST 2006


Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:

> then on some NUMA infrastructures the order may not be as you expect.

Oh, yuck!

Okay... does NUMA guarantee the same for ordinary memory accesses inside the
critical section?

David



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