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averne_
9 days ago
The explanation is missing that the hardware also notifies you of modifications, which makes it useful for implementing cross-cluster synchronization primitives.
Compare to MONITOR/MWAIT on x86:
https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/mwait#mwait-for-address-ra...