Re: RFC: Petition Intel/AMD to add POPF_IF insn

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 18/08/2016 19:24, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > I didn't do CPL0 tests yet. Realized that cli/sti can be tested in userspace
>> > if we set iopl(3) first.
> Yes, but it might not be the same. So the timings could be very
> different from a cpl0 case.

FWIW I recently measured around 20 cycles for a popf as well on
Haswell-EP and CPL=0 (that was for commit f2485b3e0c6c, "KVM: x86: use
guest_exit_irqoff", 2016-07-01).

Paolo