Re: [PATCH] x86, AMD: Correct F15h IC aliasing issue

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Wed Jul 27 2011 - 11:58:23 EST


On 07/27/2011 06:49 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
> What about F21h processors? I see you're not checking them.
>
> Is there any reason the check should not be made based on topology?

Because this patch addresses a performance improvement for the F15h
microarchitecture - that doesn't have anything to do with cache
topology.

Okay.

Out of curiosity, what's the performance impact if the workaround is not enabled?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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