Article 6VN40 AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation "INVLPGB" Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel

AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation "INVLPGB" Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel

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Michael Larabel
from Phoronix on (#6VN40)
Back in December Linux kernel patches were posted by a Meta engineer for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found with Zen 3 and newer processors. The Linux kernel would use INVLPGB for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcast. After these patches went through 14 rounds of review since December, it looks like this AMD broadcast TLB invalidation support is now ready for the mainline Linux kernel!..
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