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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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