On Mon, 4 May 2020 22:29:07 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The idea behind this prefetch was to kick off a page table walk before
> returning from the fault, getting some pipelining advantage.
>
> But this never showed up any noticable performance advantage, and in
> fact with KUAP the
The idea behind this prefetch was to kick off a page table walk before
returning from the fault, getting some pipelining advantage.
But this never showed up any noticable performance advantage, and in
fact with KUAP the prefetches are actually blocked and cause some
kind of micro-architectural
