On 26.01.2023 21:43, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 25/01/2023 3:26 pm, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> In order to avoid clobbering Xen's own predictions, defer the barrier as
>> much as possible.
>
> I can't actually think of a case where this matters. We've done a
> reasonable amount of work to get rid of in
On 25/01/2023 3:26 pm, Jan Beulich wrote:
> In order to avoid clobbering Xen's own predictions, defer the barrier as
> much as possible.
I can't actually think of a case where this matters. We've done a
reasonable amount of work to get rid of indirect branches, and rets were
already immaterial be
In order to avoid clobbering Xen's own predictions, defer the barrier as
much as possible. Merely mark the CPU as needing a barrier issued the
next time we're exiting to guest context.
Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich
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I couldn't find any sensible (central/unique) place