Re: [patch] linux 2.4.17: The second mb() rework (final)

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> So I think that the Linux code was perfectly correct in considering
> the TX39 to be without SYNC, just as a Vr4101 must be
> consdered to be without LL/SC.  They decode the instructions,
> but they don't actually implement them as specified.

 The code is not correct if "bc0f" is needed to be sure a write-back
happened.  If that is the case, the processors need their own wbflush() 
implementation like R2k/R3k configurations in older DECstations. 

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