From: H. Peter Anvin Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:31:57 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86, cpu: Change NOP selection for certain Intel CPUs X-Git-Tag: v3.0-rc1~398^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d8d9766c8c29f71c37bc4b74cc9fcf6a192c9bfd;p=pandora-kernel.git x86, cpu: Change NOP selection for certain Intel CPUs Due to a decoder implementation quirk, some specific Intel CPUs actually perform better with the "k8_nops" than with the SDM-recommended NOPs. For runtime-selected NOPs, if we detect those specific CPUs then use the k8_nops instead of the ones we would normally use. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jason Baron Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303166160-10315-4-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com --- Reading git-diff-tree failed