Re: [PATCH] [RFC] [2.5 i386] GCC 3.1 -march support, PPRO_FENCE

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 21:43, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> > When we use MMX/SSE we need the view to be consistent anyway so the
> > various copying routines already handle this internally. 
> That's why sfence is not used unless CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE (and
> CONFIG_X86_MMXEXT) is defined.
> mfence and lfence instead replace the "lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)". Is this
> wrong?

I'm trying to understand why you think they are needed at all. Except
for code that specifically does non-temporal we don't need fences on an
X86, and the code that uses non temporal stores has its own fences built
in.

So as far as I can see the only cases we ever have to care about are

PPro - processor bug
IDT Winchip - because we run it in oostore module not strict x86 mode

I don't see why you are generating extra fence instructions for other
cases