On 9/22/22 13:10, Andreas Mohr wrote:
(- but then what about other more modern chipsets?)
--> we need to achieve (hopefully sufficiently precisely) a solution which takes into account Zen3 STPCLK# improvements while preserving "accepted" behaviour/requirements on *all* STPCLK#-hampered chipsets ("STPCLK# I/O wait is default/traditional handling"?).
Ideally, sure. But, we're talking about theoretically regressing the idle behavior of some indeterminate set of old systems, the majority of which are sitting in a puddle of capacitor goo at the bottom of a landfill right now. This is far from an ideal situation.
FWIW, I'd much rather do something like
if ((boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD) && (boot_cpu_data.x86_model >= 0xF)) return;
inl(slow_whatever);
than a Zen check. AMD has, as far as I know, been a lot more sequential and sane about model numbers than Intel, and there are some AMD model number range checks in the codebase today.
A check like this would also be _relatively_ future-proof in the case that X86_FEATURE_ZEN stops getting set on future AMD CPUs. That's a lot more likely than AMD going and reusing a <0xF model.