Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:45:26 -0700 | From | "Raj, Ashok" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/microcode: Update late microcode in parallel |
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 09:13:31PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 05:56:30PM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote: > > > "Cloud customers have expressed discontent as services disappear for > > > a prolonged time. The restriction is that only one core (or only one > > > thread of a core in the case of an SMT system) goes through the update > > > while other cores (or respectively, SMT threads) are quiesced." > > > > the last line seems to imply that only one core can be updated at a time. > > Only one core *is* being updated at a time now, before the parallel > loading patch. Look at the code. I'm talking about what the code does, > not what the requirement is.
Crystal :-)
> > Maybe it should not say "restriction" above but the sentence should > start with: "Currently, only one core... "
That will help clear things up..
> > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
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