By: Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto.delete@this.gmail.com), April 8, 2021 1:03 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org) on April 7, 2021 5:12 pm wrote:
> Atomics can also much more naturally support more relaxed memory orderings, including actual
> remote accesses (although I'm not convinced anybody ever implemented that).
IIRC some Freescale POWER cores had atomics with relaxed ordering that were executed outside of the core.
> Atomics can also much more naturally support more relaxed memory orderings, including actual
> remote accesses (although I'm not convinced anybody ever implemented that).
IIRC some Freescale POWER cores had atomics with relaxed ordering that were executed outside of the core.