Re: [PATCH 01/22] x86: add methods for writing of an MSR on severalCPUs

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu May 21 2009 - 13:38:54 EST


Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> Well, let's do the nonserializing thing and have it done right from the
> beginning. We might not care now but who knows..?
>

If nothing else it might matter for boot time. Serializing *anything*
across a large number of CPUs can be very expensive.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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