>It doesn't work this way. Stores can be forwarded to reads within a CPU
>before they become externally visible. Your suggestion would considerably
>hurt SMP performance.
I only wanted to tell how things should work in hardware to avoid us to
put lock on the bus to prevent the CPU to reorder instruction. Of course I
agree it doesn't work this way otherwise the testcase wouldn't deadlock ;).
Andrea
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