Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/cpuid: Move vendor/family/model information from arch_domain to cpuid_policy

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 12.01.17 at 15:02, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did make get_cpu_vendor() quite a lot better than it was previously,
> but it is still searching a loop.  For the extra 3 bytes of data, I
> still think pre-calculating the values is worth it.

Well, as said, the question isn't the extra amount of data, but the
redundancy (and hence risk of going out of sync). Could we meet
in the middle and agree on just caching vendor, but not the other
two items?

Jan


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