Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] x86/intel_rdt: Restoration of Cache Pseudo-Locked regions

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Aug 03 2018 - 10:48:40 EST


On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 07:23:27AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 08/03/2018 04:45 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> Within the kernel two locations with direct invocations of the WBINVD
> >> instruction are coverted to native_wbinvd() and compile tested. Neither
> >> location is likely to be used on the platforms supporting Cache Pseudo-Locking.
> > Can we just get rid of WBINVD?
>
> In general, or just this specific case?

In general I think. There aren't that many users IIRC.