Re: [RFC] Improve memset

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 03:10:21PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Then the "reverse alternatives" feature wouldn't be needed anyway.

The intent was to have the default, most-used version be there at
build-time, obviating the need to patch. Therefore on those old !ERMS
CPUs we'll end up doing rep;stosb before patching, which is supported,
albeit slow.

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