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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/4] x86, mwaitt: introduce mwaix delay with a configurable timer
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 10:55:15AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> When I looked at the rdtsc ordering a couple years ago, I thought
> about what it meant for rdtsc to be properly ordered. I decided that
> proper rdtsc ordering meant that no one should ever be able to tell if
> rdtsc ends up reordered. Concretely, I think that rdtsc should be
> ordered like an x86 load from a shared memory location. The manuals
> are vague but, after a decent amount of experimentation,
> rdtsc_barrier(); rdtsc() seems to achieve that on all CPUs. With the
> barrier, the rdtsc won't happen before a prior load in the same
> thread, and no CPU seems to ever execute rdtsc after a subsequent
> memory access.

That sounds weak to me. I think we will need some enlightenment from hw
people here before we go assume stuff.

> > By virtue of the address dependency?
>
> No, it's just that CPUs seem to work this way.

Err, that sounds funny. And it must be the data dependency forcing the
RDTSC to execute in order in that case.

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Boris.

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