Andi Kleen wrote:
Yes it's never fast, but on basically all non P4 CPUs it is still fast enough
to not be a problem. I suppose it causes a trace cache flush or something like
that there.
I don't think it's that bad, but it might cause a full pipeline flush.
I seem to remember measuring its cost at about 50 cycles.
J
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