Re: x86, ARM, PARISC, PPC, MIPS and Sparc folks please run this

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 06:21:45 EST


On Mer, 2003-09-03 at 17:07, Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:
> In x86 store buffer is not snooped which leads to all these serialization
> issues (other CPUs looking at stale value of data which is in the store
> buffer of some other CPU).

x86 gives you coherency and store ordering (barring errata and special
CPU modes)

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