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    x86-64: Mark rdtsc as sync only for netburst, not for core2 · 5871db77
    Arjan van de Ven authored
    On the Core2 cpus, the rdtsc instruction is not serializing (as defined
    in the architecture reference since rdtsc exists) and due to the deep
    speculation of these cores, it's possible that you can observe time go
    backwards between cores due to this speculation. Since the kernel
    already deals with this with the SYNC_RDTSC flag, the solution is
    simple, only assume that the instruction is serializing on family 15...
    
    The price one pays for this is a slightly slower gettimeofday (by a
    dozen or two cycles), but that increase is quite small to pay for a
    really-going-forward tsc counter.
    
    Backport by Chris Wright.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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