On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> In practice we do not need to worry about changes made with a kernel
> call in between, as any sort of context swap will cause the kernel to
> force cache synchronization.
>
Note that not all kernel calls are equal these days. Some
(gettimeofday on Linux) are implemented as very lightweight calls that
don't do memory map changes and might not trigger the kinds of
synchronization you're talking about. Any IPC kernel calls like kill
will though I'm sure.
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greg