Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/syscall: Dispatch via sys_call_table when Spectre v2 and BHI are off

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2026 at 12:06, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> This doesn't buy you anything, except a larger code footprint and more
> branch predictor pressure.

Very possible. At some point in history, computed branches were
cheaper than table lookups, but that may simply not be true any more.

               Linus