Re: 8aeb879baf12 - significant system call latency regression, bisected

From: H. Peter Anvin

Date: Thu Jun 18 2026 - 21:34:57 EST


On 2026-06-18 15:40, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On 2026-06-17 05:37, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

This builds with kcfi on and seems to do more or less do what is expected.

I've not actually tried performance measurements on my IDT based system.


I'm going to run this through its paces.


Well, isn't this cute.

It *does* indeed align x64_sys_call() now, but the performance is firmly in the "bad" bucket, higher variance and all...

-hpa