Dear smart people, I'm gonna write what I think is correct and you fix my mistakes, fill in the blanks, or confirm what is correct.<BR><BR>This is referring to x86(-64), but should generally apply to ...

The first installment of this series was an overview of memory barriers, why they are needed in SMP kernels and how the Linux kernel handles them [August 2005]. This installment gives an overview of ...

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Ghrachorloo, K. Memory consistency models for shared-memory multiprocessors. Tech. Rep. CSL-TR-95-685, Computer Systems Laboratory, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford ...