Re: Fix ia64 bit ops: Full barriers for bit operations returning a value

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter_at_sgi.com>
Date: 2006-04-05 00:40:42
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Zoltan Menyhart wrote:

> Could you consider using some cache hints, like "ld8.bias.nta"?
> "bias" is a hint to acquire exclusive ownership.
> "nta" is a hint to allocate the cache line only in L2
> (and side effect: to bias it to be replaced).
> All of the Itanium 2 processor's atomic instructions are handled
> exclusively by the L2 cache.

Could you come up with a patch? Currently, I do not seem to be able to 
spend enough time on it.
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