Messages in this thread | | | From | Nadav Amit <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86: bug: prevent gcc distortions | Date | Fri, 18 May 2018 15:46:33 +0000 |
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Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 02:36:21PM +0000, Nadav Amit wrote: >> I didn’t try too hard to find more affected (micro)benchmarks, but I am >> pretty sure there are: > > So you being pretty sure there are, doesn't make me go, oh, ok, then, > this is an uglification we should try to live with. It is still ugly > with no proven benefit from it.
In case you didn’t read the cover-letter: the patch-set does give a 2% performance improvement for #PF-MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark loop.
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