A Quick Run With The FSGSBASE Patches On Intel + AMD

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A Quick Run With The FSGSBASE Patches On Intel + AMD: FSGSBASE patches for the Linux kernel have been available for years albeit not mainlined to date. However, thankfully, a Microsoft Linux developer has taken up the cause to get them upstreamed given the performance benefits they are even seeing. Here are some benchmarks of the Linux kernel patches for FSGSBASE on both Intel and AMD CPUs.