Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Pile o' FS/GS changes

2016-04-08 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 05:31:43PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Hi all- > > This whole mess is intended for x86/urgent. It fixes several bugs. > > It's probably a tiny performance regression on some workloads on > Intel CPUs. It's probably varies between a less tiny regression and > a small

Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Pile o' FS/GS changes

2016-04-08 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 05:31:43PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Hi all- > > This whole mess is intended for x86/urgent. It fixes several bugs. > > It's probably a tiny performance regression on some workloads on > Intel CPUs. It's probably varies between a less tiny regression and > a small

Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Pile o' FS/GS changes

2016-04-08 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 05:31:43PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Hi all- > > This whole mess is intended for x86/urgent. It fixes several bugs. > > It's probably a tiny performance regression on some workloads on > Intel CPUs. It's probably varies between a less tiny regression and > a small

Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Pile o' FS/GS changes

2016-04-08 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 05:31:43PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Hi all- > > This whole mess is intended for x86/urgent. It fixes several bugs. > > It's probably a tiny performance regression on some workloads on > Intel CPUs. It's probably varies between a less tiny regression and > a small

[PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Pile o' FS/GS changes

2016-04-07 Thread Andy Lutomirski
Hi all- This whole mess is intended for x86/urgent. It fixes several bugs. It's probably a tiny performance regression on some workloads on Intel CPUs. It's probably varies between a less tiny regression and a small speedup on newer AMD CPUs. It's a bigger regression on AMD K8. The AMD code

[PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Pile o' FS/GS changes

2016-04-07 Thread Andy Lutomirski
Hi all- This whole mess is intended for x86/urgent. It fixes several bugs. It's probably a tiny performance regression on some workloads on Intel CPUs. It's probably varies between a less tiny regression and a small speedup on newer AMD CPUs. It's a bigger regression on AMD K8. The AMD code