> - all machines Python runs on should AFAIK be cache-coherent: CPUs synchronize
> their views of memory in a rather timely fashion.
Ok. I thought that Itanium was an example where this assumption is
actually violated (as many web pages claim such a restriction), however,
it seems that on Itanium, caches are indeed synchronized using MESI.
So claims wrt. lack of cache consistency on Itanium, and the need for
barrier instruction, seem to be caused by the Itanium feature that
allows the processor to fetch memory out-of-order, i.e. an earlier read
may see a later memory state. This is apparently used to satisfy reads
as soon as the cache line is read (so that the cache line can be
discarded earlier). Wrt. to your requirement ("rather timely fashion",
this still seems to be fine).
Still, this all needs to be documented in the code :-)
Regards,
Martin
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