From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Joseph, Jithu" <jithu.joseph@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: [RFC 08/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add IFS sysfs interface
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 21:33:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5129ec667d734f3da4043ce1b7df0439@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YiZ5bYPvssUFYGZj@kroah.com>
> > Also some context on test frequency: Hardware has strict rate limiting of tests.
> > Every core can be tested only once in every 30 minutes. So it is pointless to test at high frequency.
>
> What limits this, the kernel?
Microcode enforces the per-core repeat rate on the first implementation.
But this limit isn't architectural. Future implementations may not have
the same, or perhaps any, limit.
-Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-07 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-01 19:54 [RFC 00/10] Introduce In Field Scan driver Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 01/10] x86/microcode/intel: expose collect_cpu_info_early() for IFS Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 20:08 ` Greg KH
2022-03-02 0:56 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-02 10:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-03-03 1:34 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 02/10] Documentation: In-Field Scan Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 20:07 ` Greg KH
2022-03-02 0:58 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 03/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add driver for " Jithu Joseph
2022-03-02 23:24 ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-02 23:31 ` Raj, Ashok
2022-03-03 0:02 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-03 2:04 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 04/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Load IFS Image Jithu Joseph
2022-03-03 2:58 ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 05/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Check IFS Image sanity Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 06/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Authenticate and copy to secured memory Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 07/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Create kthreads for online cpus for scan test Jithu Joseph
2022-03-03 4:17 ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-03 19:59 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-04 19:20 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 16:52 ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 17:46 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-10 21:42 ` Kok, Auke
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 08/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add IFS sysfs interface Jithu Joseph
2022-03-04 0:31 ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-04 16:51 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-04 20:42 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-04 21:01 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-21 21:15 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-07 17:38 ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 19:09 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 19:15 ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 19:55 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 20:25 ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 20:56 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 21:28 ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 21:30 ` gregkh
2022-03-07 21:33 ` Luck, Tony [this message]
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 09/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: add ABI documentation for IFS Jithu Joseph
2022-03-04 0:57 ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 10/10] trace: platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add trace point to track Intel IFS operations Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 20:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2022-03-02 1:02 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 20:10 ` [RFC 00/10] Introduce In Field Scan driver Greg KH
2022-03-01 20:14 ` Greg KH
2022-03-14 23:10 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-15 7:34 ` Greg KH
2022-03-15 14:59 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-15 15:26 ` Greg KH
2022-03-15 16:04 ` Dan Williams
2022-03-15 16:09 ` Dan Williams
2022-03-15 16:10 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-16 8:09 ` Greg KH
2022-03-02 15:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2022-03-02 16:20 ` Greg KH
2022-03-02 13:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-03-02 20:29 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-02 21:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-03-02 21:41 ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-02 23:11 ` Williams, Dan J
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