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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, acpi, idle: Restructure the mwait idle routines
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 11/20/2013 2:58 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >So pretty silly actually; you cannot do a store (any store) in between
> >monitor and mwait.
>
> you can
> just not to the cacheline you are watching (or things that alias with that)

Ah indeed, the thread_info::status is in the same cacheline.


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