On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Dave Hansen wrote: > > What? IBPB makes tons of sense even without STIBP. > > I'm lost. :) > > I don't think anyone is talking about using STIBP *everywhere* that IBPB > is in-use. > > We're just guessing that, if anybody is paranoid enough to ask for IBPB, > *and* they have SMT, they almost certainly want STIBP too.
I think you are not lost :) and this is exactly what makes sense, and what Tim's patchset implements. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
