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SubjectRe: [RFC v2 0/6] x86: dynamic indirect branch promotion
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> On Dec 31, 2018, at 11:51 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 11:20 PM Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote:
>> This is a revised version of optpolines (formerly named retpolines) for
>> dynamic indirect branch promotion in order to reduce retpoline overheads
>> [1].
>
> Some of your changelogs still call them "relpolines".
>
> I have a crazy suggestion: maybe don't give them a cute name at all?
> Where it's actually necessary to name them (like in a config option),
> use a description like CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEVIRTUALIZATION or
> CONFIG_PATCH_INDIRECT_CALLS or something.

I’m totally fine with that (don’t turn me into a "marketing” guy). It was
just a way to refer to the mechanism. I need more feedback about the more
fundamental issues to go on.

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