Re: [GIT pull] x86 mpx support for 3.19

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Dec 10 2014 - 15:49:29 EST


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Dave Hansen
<dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I misspoke there. I meant SMAP (I placed MPX below its config option).

Ok, I agree on SMAP, we might want to have that be configurable too,
especially for smaller systems (I *think* SMAP is big-core only,
right?). I'm not sure how much of a possible performance downside it
has, but it does add instructions to potentially critical areas.

Linus
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