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Hello,
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Roberto Nibali wrote:
> > works. As for wmb(), there are some places in DS-8 that don't have it,
>
> I thought that wmb() was a nop; anyway on Intel Pentium hardware (as
> long as out of order store is not supported). My gcc doesn't generate
> code for the wmb() or I don't see it because it is optimized for
> pipelining and parallel write.
Yes, there is no real code for the current Intel CPUs,
so we will not see the SMP problems :) include/asm-i386/system.h
explains the issue.
> > Of course, feedback from many users is needed before marking this
> > patch as stable :)
>
> You can count on me that if it breaks you get the pieces. But I'm not so
> sure that I will even come close to breaking it with my simplistic use
Yes, I use simple things too :)
> of tc. Will you announce it on netdev for broader acceptance testing?
It was announced on LARTC and diffserv on August, 18:
http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2002q3/004778.html
> Best regards,
> Roberto Nibali, ratz
Regards
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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
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