On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:36:14PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> 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 <[email protected]>
> 
> 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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