> Are you referring to the wmb() calls? Those just insert write memory
> barries which is a no-op on x86. I don't even know if they are
> actually needed.
They are almost no-ops. They also stop the compiler from moving assignments
around. On the PowerPC they stop things like speculative I/O going on. The
x86 is a very linear sort of device.
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