Memory model release/acquire mode interactions of relaxed atomic operations

[Toebs Douglass]

On 04/05/17 14:44, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> Although there are also relaxed atomic operations (on atomic types)
> which are not synchronization operations. Not all atomic operations
> provide sequential consistency.

If you had multiple cores issuing CAS with consume on a single variable,
you'd get total order, I think?  and you wouldn't with relaxed because
with relaxed you wouldn't get a compiler barrier.