Am Samstag, 23. Jänner 2021, 14:40:08 EAT schrieb Jacek Caban:
On 22/01/2021 17:21, Paul Gofman wrote:
I think we still support processors which don't have AVX and thus don't have xsave instruction (which is reported as a separate cpuid bit).
Looking closer at this, we indeed need a feature check here. I will work on a new version (patches 1-11 in the series should not be affected).
I am curious if you have tested the performance impact of this. While I agree that this chance is the right thing to do it would be nice to know the downsides.