On 11/27/2013 03:40 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> But I'd guess that depends on the uarch because Bulldozer, reportedly,
> implements MFENCE by causing a pipeline stall which controls the
> prefetches too:
>
An implementation can always make the memory model stronger, but not weaker.
-hpa
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