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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Hi Borislav, all, > > I am encountering varying delays in the boot process I recognise those symptoms. https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=f19a199281a23725beb73bef61eb8964d8e225ce We found it in Xen in 2019, and were instructed by AMD to insert a TLB flush immediately after patchloading. Looking at Linux, there's no such workaround. It turns out that a side effect of patchloading on some CPUs leaves the mapping of the blob in the TLB (at whatever granularity) as fully UC.  When this happens to be a 2M/1G superpage, it causes whole lot of perf problems in unrelated areas. I suggest Linux take the same approach. ~Andrew