Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] MR741: ntdll: Implement NtFlushProcessWriteBuffers.

[Zebediah Figura (＠zfigura)]

On Wed Oct 26 15:52:49 2022 +0000, Jinoh Kang wrote:
> I noticed the following comment in the latest revision:
>     /* Ensure writes so far are visible to other threads, so that we can
> avoid sending a memory barrier APC
>      * from NtFlushProcessWriteBuffers to this thread while it is
> sleeping. */
>     MemoryBarrier();
>
> So I'd say this is paired with future `FlushProcessWriteBuffers`
> requests from other threads while the current thread is sleeping.

Why do we need a general memory barrier in server_select(), though? A memory barrier is part of the FlushProcessWriteBuffers API, but there are other APIs that do server_select().