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Intel Architecture Manual specifies that rdtsc instruction is not serialized, so without this change, TSC synchronization test would periodically fail, resulting in use of HPET timecounter instead of TSC-low. This caused severe performance degradation (40-50%) when running high IO/s workloads due to HPET MMIO reads and GEOM stat collection. Tests on Xeon E5-2600 (Sandy Bridge) 8C systems were seeing TSC synchronization fail approximately 20% of the time. Sponsored by: Intel Reviewed by: kib MFC after: 3 days |
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