On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:51 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Then please point me to the common industry definition of it because I > couldn't find anything definitive. And as you state yourself above one > definition of it - the corresponding C11 fence - does not in fact have the > same semantics! I changed to the terminology "acquire fence" and "release fence" as popularized by preshing http://preshing.com/20130922/acquire-and-release-fences/ * Ensures that loads and stores before the fence will not be reordered with * stores after the fence; also referred to as a StoreStore plus LoadStore * barrier, or as a "release fence".
