* H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> CLFLUSH is only (guaranteed to be) ordered with respect to MFENCE
> according to the SDM.
Yes, I quoted the relevant text a couple of hours ago, CLFLUSH is
pretty special, so it's not ordered against atomics or serializing
instructions for example - only ordered against explict MFENCE calls,
which on x86 is mb()/smp_mb().
Thanks,
Ingo
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