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CPU 存在 store buffer 的直接影响是,当 CPU 提交一个写操作时,这个写操作不会立即写入到 cache 中。因而,无论什么时候 CPU 需要从 cache line 中读取,都需要先扫描它自己的 store buffer 来确认是否存在相同的 line,因为有可能当前 CPU 在这次操作之前曾经写入过 cache,但该数据还没有被刷入过 cache(之前的写操作还在 store buffer 中等待)。需要注意的是,虽然 CPU 可以读取其之前写入到 store buffer 中的值,但其它 CPU 并不能在该 CPU 将 store buffer 中的内容 flush 到 cache 之前看到这些值。即 store buffer 是不能跨核心访问的,CPU 核心看不到其它核心的 store buffer。
从结果上来讲,memory barrier 是必须的。一个 store barrier 会把 store buffer flush 掉,确保所有的写操作都被应用到 CPU 的 cache。一个 read barrier 会把 invalidation queue flush 掉,也就确保了其它 CPU 的写入对执行 flush 操作的当前这个 CPU 可见。再进一步,MMU 没有办法扫描 store buffer,会导致类似的问题。这种效果对于单线程处理器来说已经是会发生的了。
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The default behavior of all atomic operations in the library provides for sequentially consistent ordering (see discussion below). That default can hurt performance, but the library's atomic operations can be given an additional std::memory_order argument to specify the exact constraints, beyond atomicity, that the compiler and processor must enforce for that operation.
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## sequential consistency
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## cache coherency vs memory consistency
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The MESI protocol makes the memory caches effectively invisible. This means that multithreaded programs don't have to worry about a core reading stale data from them or two cores writing to different parts of a cache line and getting half of one write and half of the other sent to main memory.
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