Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE and Intel® VTune™ Amplifier for Systems Help
Certain events require the entire pipeline to be cleared and restarted from just after the last retired instruction. This metric estimates the overhead of machine clears due to Memory Ordering. The memory ordering (MO) machine clear happens when a snoop request from another processor matches a source for a data operation in the pipeline. In this situation the pipeline is cleared before the loads and stores in progress are retired. Then the pipeline is restarted from the previous retired instruction, ensuring that memory ordering of loads and stores can be preserved, both within one core and across cores. Memory ordering issues cause a severe penalty in all processors based on Intel architecture.
A significant portion of execution time is spent clearing the machine to handle memory ordering requirements. To avoid this, reorder your load and store instructions, particularly loads and stores of data that is shared, or reduce sharing requirements.