Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:03:29 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/microcode: Update late microcode in parallel |
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 08:53:05AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > What is the advantage of having those other threads go through > find_patch() and (in Intel case) intel_get_microcode_revision() (which > involves two MSR accesses) vs. having the master sibling update slaves' > microcode revisions? There are only two things that need to be updated, > uci->cpu_sig.rev and c->microcode.
Less code churn and simplicity.
I accept non-ugly patches, of course. :-)
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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