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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: several messages
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 14:21:14 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:09:04AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > This is a straightforward speedup on Ivy Bridge and newer, IIRC.
> > (I tested on Skylake.  INVPCID is not available on Sandy Bridge.
> > I don't have Ivy Bridge, Haswell or Broadwell to test on, so I
> > could be wrong as to when the feature was introduced.)
>
> Haswell and Broadwell have it. No idea about ivy bridge.

I have an IVB model 58. It doesn't have it:

CPUID_0x00000007: EAX=0x00000000, EBX=0x00000281, ECX=0x00000000, EDX=0x00000000

INVPCID should be EBX[10].

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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