Re: [PATCH 0/2] Speed MTRR programming up when we can

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Jun 27 2019 - 16:39:27 EST


On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> By measuring the execution time of mtrr_aps_init() (from which MTRRs
> in all CPUs are programmed in lock-step at boot), I find savings in the
> time required to program MTRRs as follows:
>
> Platform time-with-wbinvd(ms) time-no-wbinvd(ms)
> 104-core (208 LP) Skylake 1437 28
> 2-core (4 LP) Haswell 114 2

Impressive!