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On 12/19/2013 10:19 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> ( It would also be nice to know whether MONITOR loads that cacheline 
>   into the CPUs cache, and in what state it loads it. )
> 

I would assume that is implementation-dependent.  However, one plausible
implementation is to load the cache line into the cache in shared state
and monitor for evictions.

	-hpa