On March 9, 2021 1:24:44 PM PST, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:05:19PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 17:58:17 +0100 >> Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > AFAICT everything made in the past 10 years ends up using p6_nops. >Is it >> > time to kill off ideal_nops[] and simplify life? >> > >> >> Well, the one bug that was reported recently was due to a box that >uses a >> different "ideal_nops" than p6_nops. Perhaps we should ask him if >there's >> any noticeable difference between using p6_nops for every function >than the >> ideal_nops that as found for that box. > >If the machine is more than a decade old, I'm not really caring about >optimal performance. If it is 32bit, I really couldn't be arsed as long >as it boots.
p6_nops don't boot on all 32-bit chips. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.