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Date:      Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:49:19 -0400
From:      Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>,  Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org>,  "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Peformance issues with r278325
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:37 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I think I'll likely just convert it to use a direct
> TSC delay loop always in HEAD (assuming that verifies ok in testing as
> well).
>

Couldn't that work incorrectly on VM guests?  The tsc is not guaranteed to
be monotonic in that environment.



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