Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:26:01 -0600
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] x86/entry/pti: don't switch PGD on when
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:19:35PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> Wouldn't the time taken by an easy syscall like getuid be a clear indicator?

I think only if you had a baseline measurement to compare against.

-- 
Josh