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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_NONE,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Also some context on test frequency: Hardware has strict rate limiting= of tests. > > Every core can be tested only once in every 30 minutes. So it is pointl= ess to test at high frequency. > > What limits this, the kernel? Microcode enforces the per-core repeat rate on the first implementation. But this limit isn't architectural. Future implementations may not have the same, or perhaps any, limit. -Tony