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Date:      Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:52:56 +0300
From:      Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
To:        "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc:        Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: libc_r locking... why?
Message-ID:  <20010701155256.C376@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0106291940590.13439-100000@www.everquick.net>; from eddy%2Bpublic%2Bspam@noc.everquick.net on Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:56:40PM %2B0000
References:  <20010629211818.A17309@cicely20.cicely.de> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0106291940590.13439-100000@www.everquick.net>

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 Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 19:56:40, eddy+public+spam (E.B. Dreger) wrote about "Re: libc_r locking... why?": 

> > A Token may not be enough because writes may be reordered.

AFAIK it's false for i386 architecture. Please correct me if needed.

> Here is where I want to learn more about cache coherency, inter-processor
> interrupts, and APIC programming.  I'd imagine that the latter two are
> lower-level than I'd be using, but I still want to know the "how and why"
> beneath the scenes.

Did you try to read MP chipsets white papers?


/netch

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