Commit f36fe1e7 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

documentation: Transitivity is not cumulativity

The "transitivity" section mentions cumulativity in a potentially
confusing way.  Contrary to the current wording, cumulativity is
not transitivity, but rather a hardware discipline that can be used
to implement transitivity on ARM and PowerPC CPUs.  This commit
therefore deletes the mention of cumulativity.
Reported-by: default avatarLuc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent 37ef0341
...@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ TRANSITIVITY ...@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ TRANSITIVITY
Transitivity is a deeply intuitive notion about ordering that is not Transitivity is a deeply intuitive notion about ordering that is not
always provided by real computer systems. The following example always provided by real computer systems. The following example
demonstrates transitivity (also called "cumulativity"): demonstrates transitivity:
CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3 CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3
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