Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:29:07 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT pull] x86/urgent for v5.9-rc2 |
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 3:01 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > And I don't think we need the GDT for anything else normally, so it's > > not even going to be cached. > > Who cares, really? > > It's pretty irrelevant because the main source of horrors are in having > to run through _ALL_ registered NMI handlers. Why would you worry about > the extra cache miss?
Yeah, it's probably not a big deal, it's just sad that KVM can't do the simpler sequence well.
Linus
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