Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] Enabling Ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature for Knights Landing

2016-12-03 Thread Pavel Machek
On Fri 2016-10-28 15:49:51, Grzegorz Andrejczuk wrote: > These patches enable Intel Xeon Phi x200 feature to use MONITOR/MWAIT > instruction in ring 3 (userspace) Patches set MSR 0x140 for all logical CPUs. > Then expose it as CPU feature and introduces elf HWCAP capability > for x86. Elf hardwa

[PATCH v7 0/4] Enabling Ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature for Knights Landing

2016-10-28 Thread Grzegorz Andrejczuk
These patches enable Intel Xeon Phi x200 feature to use MONITOR/MWAIT instruction in ring 3 (userspace) Patches set MSR 0x140 for all logical CPUs. Then expose it as CPU feature and introduces elf HWCAP capability for x86. Reference: https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/10/06/intel-xeon-phi-