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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/TSC: Use RDTSCP
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On 11/19/18 11:52 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> I thought I benchmarked this on Intel at some point and found the
> LFENCE;RDTSC variant to be slightly faster.  But I believe you, so:
> 
> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> 

As long as the difference isn't significant, the simplicity would seem to be a
win.

	-hpa