On 11/19/2010 03:58 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > Well, it's not quite enough just to call into the kernel to serialize > on "some point of memory", because your point is to make sure that > *this particular piece of memory* is coherent.
Well, that certainly doesn't apply to full fences, that are not specific to a particular piece of memory. I'm thinking of 'mfence' on x86_64 or 'mf' on ia64. Regards Markus Wanner -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
