On 10/04/18 13:05, Nadav Amit wrote: > > Funny. Immediate-patching is what I was playing with when I encountered the > gcc issue. Performance got worse instead of improving (or at least staying > the same), because inlining got crazy. > > Anyhow, wait for my soon-to-be-sent RFC in which I define a macro called > “call” (to reduce the retpoline overhead) before you talk about damage to > the eyes. >
Doing it well is *hard*, as I discovered. The actual patch is much,
much, larger.
-hpa
