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Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Is it that slow outside of a VM? Either way, this seems like a very sensible patch.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    It's only slightly faster. cpuid is a serialising instruction, which means all the instructions before it have to complete, removing any gains from pipelining and out of order execution. However for a VM this also triggers a VM exit, where the hypervisor takes over to modify the values for the guest.

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