Lockless uidinfo.
Maciej Sobczak
prog at msobczak.com
Tue Aug 21 14:12:02 PDT 2007
John Baldwin wrote:
> Memory barriers on another CPU don't mean anything about the CPU thread 2 is
> on.
Of course they do. Otherwise they would be completely useless.
> Memory barriers do not flush caches on other CPUs, etc.
Membars are not about caches, but about visibility and ordering. Cache
is transparent and that is guaranteed by hardware - there is no need to
involve any software tricks to make cache work correctly. You can
influence their performance, but not correctness.
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