That's my rationale for doing the sync and eieio in the mb().  That way,
we're guaranteed no races no matter what assumptions someone makes about
the x86 when adding barriers to their driver code.  Is that unreasonable?

It would be good to get the right stuff done in the drivers not take a
wired in performance hit we cant get back out of

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