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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alex@ghiti.fr, aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, axboe@kernel.dk,
	bp@alien8.de, brauner@kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu, dave.hansen@intel.com,
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	edumazet@google.com, hpa@zytor.com, kuni1840@gmail.com,
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	mingo@redhat.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com,
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	will@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] epoll: Use __user_write_access_begin() and unsafe_put_user() in epoll_put_uevent().
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:42:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bc35f89-1b77-4c0c-b6ea-fe9b2cb74870@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wiTN=1Sm5DVnXDtQ-tSiPuz-7QVpgP2vt6LgaEnhbubfw@mail.gmail.com>

> Yeah, clac/stac are horrenously expensive on Zen 2. I think they are
> microcoded - and not the fast kind - so effectively serializing.

AIUI, Zen5 is the first uarch capable of renaming the AC flag.

This make STAC/CLAC "lfence-like" in practice on older CPUs, because of
an implementation constraint of not being able to execute speculatively.

~Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-29  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-23  0:04 [PATCH v1 0/2] epoll: Save one stac/clac pair " Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-10-23  0:04 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] uaccess: Add __user_write_access_begin() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-10-23  5:37   ` Linus Torvalds
2025-10-23  8:29     ` David Laight
2025-10-24  5:31       ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-10-23  0:04 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] epoll: Use __user_write_access_begin() and unsafe_put_user() in epoll_put_uevent() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-10-23 19:40   ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-24  5:16     ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-10-24 14:05       ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-24 14:47         ` David Laight
2025-10-28  5:32         ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-10-28  9:54           ` David Laight
2025-10-28 16:42             ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-10-28 16:58               ` Linus Torvalds
2025-10-29  1:42                 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2025-10-28 22:30               ` David Laight

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