On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:46:32 -0700 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> No.  mb is a memory barrier, and as such the compiler will not optimise
> around it. []

Not quite that. It also flushes store buffers in CPUs which have those.
If we had an SMP m68k, we'd have three nops in it, for example.

-- Pete


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