Re: [PATCH] x86 idle: repair large-server 50-watt idle-power regression

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* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> CLFLUSH is only (guaranteed to be) ordered with respect to MFENCE 
> according to the SDM.

Yes, I quoted the relevant text a couple of hours ago, CLFLUSH is 
pretty special, so it's not ordered against atomics or serializing 
instructions for example - only ordered against explict MFENCE calls, 
which on x86 is mb()/smp_mb().

Thanks,

	Ingo
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