If that's what you mean then linearizable can't be the same as monotonic since monotonicity is weaker than sequential consistency, not stronger. If I understan

If that's what you mean then linearizable can't be the same as monotonic since monotonicity is weaker than sequential consistency, not stronger. If I understand LLVM's docs correctly, the difference between monotonicity and sequential consistency is that the former is for a single address whereas the latter is for all addresses. They would've been more clear on this if they had said "that the modification orders for different addresses can be combined to a global total order for the whole program".