Counting on the time stamp counter
Posted Nov 16, 2006 4:41 UTC (Thu) by
PaulMcKenney (subscriber, #9624)
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Counting on the time stamp counter by jreiser
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Counting on the time stamp counter
The rumor I hear is that reading TSC does some degree of instruction-stream serialization. Someone from Intel or AMD might be able to shed better light on the performance of rdtsc.
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