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authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2006-07-17 09:25:26 -0400
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2006-07-17 09:25:26 -0400
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@@ -1015,10 +1015,9 @@ CPU from reordering them.
There are some more advanced barrier functions:
(*) set_mb(var, value)
- (*) set_wmb(var, value)
- These assign the value to the variable and then insert at least a write
- barrier after it, depending on the function. They aren't guaranteed to
+ This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write
+ barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to
insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation.