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Subject: Re: newbus IO ordering semantics - moving forward
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On 10/28/2011 2:08 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> This is the offending code. Ah, I had it wrong - lots of writes,
> followed by a read:
>
>

Few architectures follow the Sparc Comet axioms (a read of I/O space 
forces a flush).