On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 05:19:01PM -0500, Michael wrote: > As Matt said, completely different problem. One is about enforcing > order, the other is about writing stuff out NOW ( which in a way > also enforces order but with a lot more baggage ).
and I'll stick my oar in to note that (IMO anyway) actions that are called BARRIER should be for enforcing order; things that are going to write stuff out now should be called SYNC or FLUSH or things like that. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org