On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:33:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 May 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > I guess it is possible. But at least in the case of write address, you'd > > have to wait for later stores anyway in order to do the alias detection, > > which might be the most common case. > > No, just the *address*. The data for the second store may not be ready, > but the address may have been resolved (and checked that it doesn't fault > etc) and the previous store may complete. Yes in the case of other dependencies I agreed that it would be possible. In the case of just address it doesn't really make sense. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
