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by spiznnx 3085 days ago
Nothing will happen since this patch will speed up AMD hardware, but leave Intel the same as before.
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This patch is part of a patchset that isn’t merged yet. The patchset adds 29% (with PCID) or > 50% (without PCID) overhead to syscalls on Intel processors.

Overall, this has between 0.28% (best case application with barely any syscalls) and > 50% (du, which does lots of syscalls) impact on performance on Intel processors.

PTI has been merged.
But it’s not been released yet, right?
It's in the current release candidate, so on track to be in the next release in a few weeks.
> Nothing will happen since this patch will speed up AMD hardware, but leave Intel the same as before.

It doesn't speed up AMD hardware. Intel incurs a performance penalty (so it doesn't leave Intel the same as before), but that penalty doesn't make your AMD CPU magically go faster.