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On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:38:36PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Thoughts on how to determine which load is a potential store?  I agree
> > every store needs to load the cacheline, but I wasn't sure if there was an
> > approach that could be applied to determine anything useful.
> 
> HITM covers both load and stores.
> 
> But it may have some skid.  The main advantage of the address is that
> it is skidless.

I guess I don't follow, how does having a skidless address help me when I
don't have any stores (on a Westmere for example)?

Cheers,
Don