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@jmickeyd jmickeyd commented Jan 3, 2014

MONITOR and MWAIT which are used to enter low power cpu wait until a memory address is accessed are by definition allowed to wake early, and thus we can replace them with a no-op to safely (although by burning up cpu).

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jmickeyd commented Jan 3, 2014

Whoops, PR to wrong repo! 😰

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