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Subj : Re: Memory visibility and MS Interlocked instructions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 10:30 am

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Joe Seigh wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>All mention of LFENCE (apart from it being part of SSE2 feature set) 
>>are SSE context free.
> 
> 
> It only seems to you because you simply refuse to recognize the 
> context: software-managed coherence for non-cachable weakly-ordered 
> write-combining memory semantics (vs "ordinary" x86/PC memory model).
> 
I'm talking about loads, not stores, and I'm wondering why the documentation
isn't symetric with how loads and stores are treated.


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Joe Seigh

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