Re: [patch] __volatile__ needed in get_cycles()?

David Miller (davem@twiddle.net)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 03:57:48 -0800


Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:56:40 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com>

On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

>which would enforce "Von Neumann execution stream", e.g. by doing CPUID

What is a Von Neumann execution stream? ;)

I believe it means execution with everything in order, no speculative
execution or memory reference re-ordering.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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