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Re: Synchronizing auxiliary mutex data

On Jun 21 2017, Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru> wrote:

> No, not at all: it only means that the CPU doesn't reorder the operations (so
> the cache subsystem receives the requests in the same order they were in the
> original program), and the cache subsystem serves them in that same order.

But how does it get to know that the actual value in memory has been
changed be another cpu?

Andreas.

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