Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:39:28 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH, x86]: Disable CPA cache flush for selfsnoop targets |
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 1:13 AM Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote: > > Recent patch [1] disabled a self-snoop feature on a list of processor > models with a known errata, so we are confident that the feature > should work on remaining models also for other purposes than to speed > up MTRR programming. > > I would like to resurrect an old patch [2] that avoids calling clflush > and wbinvd > to invalidate caches when CPU supports selfsnoop.
The big question here is: what are all the reasons that we might need to flush? Certainly, for stuff like SEV and MKTME, we need to flush regardless of any self-snoop capability.
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