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* x86: kvmclock: drop rdtsc_barrier()
@ 2015-04-25  1:36 Marcelo Tosatti
  2015-04-25  1:45 ` Rik van Riel
  2015-04-29  1:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Marcelo Tosatti @ 2015-04-25  1:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm; +Cc: Andy Lutomirski, Rik van Riel


Drop unnecessary rdtsc_barrier(), as has been determined empirically,
see 057e6a8c660e95c3f4e7162e00e2fee1fc90c50d for details.

Noticed by Andy Lutomirski.

Improves clock_gettime() by approximately 15% on 
Intel i7-3520M @ 2.90GHz.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h
index 25b1cc0..a5beb23 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ unsigned __pvclock_read_cycles(const struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src,
 	offset = pvclock_get_nsec_offset(src);
 	ret = src->system_time + offset;
 	ret_flags = src->flags;
-	rdtsc_barrier();
 
 	*cycles = ret;
 	*flags = ret_flags;


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