memory-barriers

Does memory fencing blocks threads in multi-core CPUs?

六月ゝ 毕业季﹏ 提交于 2020-12-29 13:52:02
问题 I was reading the Intel instruction set guide 64-ia-32 guide to get an idea on memory fences. My question is that for an example with SFENCE, in order to make sure that all store operations are globally visible, does the multi-core CPU parks all the threads even running on other cores till the cache coherence achieved ? 回答1: Barriers don't make other threads/cores wait. They make some operations in the current thread wait , depending on what kind of barrier it is. Out-of-order execution of

Does memory fencing blocks threads in multi-core CPUs?

旧时模样 提交于 2020-12-29 13:52:00
问题 I was reading the Intel instruction set guide 64-ia-32 guide to get an idea on memory fences. My question is that for an example with SFENCE, in order to make sure that all store operations are globally visible, does the multi-core CPU parks all the threads even running on other cores till the cache coherence achieved ? 回答1: Barriers don't make other threads/cores wait. They make some operations in the current thread wait , depending on what kind of barrier it is. Out-of-order execution of

Does memory fencing blocks threads in multi-core CPUs?

徘徊边缘 提交于 2020-12-29 13:51:09
问题 I was reading the Intel instruction set guide 64-ia-32 guide to get an idea on memory fences. My question is that for an example with SFENCE, in order to make sure that all store operations are globally visible, does the multi-core CPU parks all the threads even running on other cores till the cache coherence achieved ? 回答1: Barriers don't make other threads/cores wait. They make some operations in the current thread wait , depending on what kind of barrier it is. Out-of-order execution of

What is the difference between load/store relaxed atomic and normal variable?

天涯浪子 提交于 2020-12-25 04:35:10
问题 As I see from a test-case: https://godbolt.org/z/K477q1 The generated assembly load/store atomic relaxed is the same as the normal variable: ldr and str So, is there any difference between relaxed atomic and normal variable? 回答1: The difference is that a normal load/store is not guaranteed to be tear-free, whereas a relaxed atomic read/write is. Also, the atomic guarantees that the compiler doesn't rearrange or optimise-out memory accesses in a similar fashion to what volatile guarantees.