[PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #2]
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Thu Mar 9 11:37:32 EST 2006
Matthew Wilcox writes:
> Looking at the SGI implementation, it's smarter than you think. Looks
> like there's a register in the local I/O hub that lets you determine
> when this write has been queued in the appropriate host->pci bridge.
Given that mmiowb takes no arguments, how does it know which is the
appropriate PCI host bridge?
Paul.
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