On 11/19/2010 03:58 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> Well, it's not quite enough just to call into the kernel to serialize
> on "some point of memory", because your point is to make sure that
> *this particular piece of memory* is coherent.
Well, that certainly doesn't apply to full fences, that are not specific
to a particular piece of memory. I'm thinking of 'mfence' on x86_64 or
'mf' on ia64.
Regards
Markus Wanner
