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Is *all* thread cached data flushed at MemoryBarrier

Obviously wrapping a critical section around access to some set of
shared state variables flushes any cached data, etc so that the threads
involved don't see a stale copy. What I was wondering is *what*
exactly gets flushed. Does the compiler some how determine the data
that is accessible from that thread, and flush just that set? (Seems
unlikely to me). Is it all data cached in registers etc? Or am I
overthinking this and instead it's more along the lines that a memory
barrier is just invalidating pages of memory such that when another
thread goes to access that memory it checks first to see if that page
needs to be refetched from main memory?

Thanks for any insights,
Tom

Aug 9 '06
20 1966
That makes perfect sense. So much for my attempt at an example!

Brian Gideon wrote:
NO***********@l ycos.com wrote:
This little sample shows reordering (or some type of caching) on 1.1:

I don't think so. It would be masked by the race condition between the
reads of m_First and m_Second. m_First could be read and m_Second
incremented several times before it is eventually read.
Aug 10 '06 #21

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