On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 09:32:34AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 02:59:52PM +0100, Jethro Beekman wrote: > > Besides only partially measuring a page, there are some other fringe > > cases that are technically possible, although I haven't seen any > > toolchains that do that. These include not interleaving EADD and > > EEXTEND, not using logical ordering for the EEXTENDs, and call EEXTEND > > multiple times on the same chunk. Maximum interoperability would > > require supporting any EADD/EEXTEND sequence. > > The reason why EEXTEND deals with chunks is nothing to do with the > granularity but just to amortize the algorithm. I did ask about this > and this is the answer that I got. I mean asked from people who have been involed in the development of this CPU feature. /Jarkko
