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Subject: Re: svn commit: r221703 - in head/sys: amd64/include i386/include
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on 13/05/2011 22:14 Bruce Evans said the following:
> It might happen for clock_gettime()
> in separate threads where the threads somehow know and depend on the
> order of the calls.

My simplistic world view is that those threads then should be the place to do
all the fence dances, not the generic tsc read function.  But, hey, I am
speaking beyond my knowledge of their code and situation.

-- 
Andriy Gapon