Re:This Is Why They Call It a Weakly-Ordered CPU
by Dylan16807 on Friday October 19, 2012 @02:39PM
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Well yes as far as WB I meant from the view of the program. Modern CPUs do all kinds of terrifying rewriting and speculation internally.
Re:This Is Why They Call It a Weakly-Ordered CPU
by dspeyer on Friday October 19, 2012 @10:27PM
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How do I control my cache type?
What you wrote is true for UC. For WB, reads can happen in any order (especially due to cache pre-fetchers). Writes always happen in program order, unless you are in other cache types such as write-combining. WC is mainly used for graphics memory-mapped pixmaps, where the order doesn't matter.
But don't let this scare you too much. From the viewpoint of a single CPU, everything is in order. It's only when you look at it from the memory bus point-of-view that things get confusing.
Unless we are dealing with a memory-mapped IO device that has read side-effects, in which case you need to carefully choose a cache type.