Performance-Helping FSGSBASE Patches Spun For Linux A 13th Time

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Performance-Helping FSGSBASE Patches Spun For Linux A 13th Time

The FSGSBASE Linux kernel patches that have the potential of helping performance going back to Intel Ivy Bridge era CPUs in select workloads have now hit their 13th revision to the series in the long-running effort to getting this support mainlined...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-FSGSBASE-v13-Patches

[Rauros]

Oleksandr Natalenko's pf-kernel already have these patches, if anyone is interested.

[NotMine999]

The link to the v13 patches in the mailing list shows the only comments so far have been "bikeshedding" the wording of messages from/for this code.

[kcrudup]

Oleksandr Natalenko's pf-kernel already have these patches, if anyone is interested.

Yeah, I've been running them since Rev 10's spin with no problems.

[ezst036]

Apparently the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish crowd didn't get the memo about this?