By: Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org), March 31, 2021 11:54 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Ganon (anon.delete@this.gmail.com) on March 31, 2021 9:58 am wrote:
> One of the main public users of TSX is SAP HANA:
.. it's literally the only one, and even that is a pure benchmarking win, not a real-world one, afaik.
And I think everything else you can find is basically academic papers with made-up loads (ie again just more "pure benchmarking").
In reality, TSX is disabled pretty much everywhere either due to outright CPU bugs, or due to all the side channel leaks.
Linus
> One of the main public users of TSX is SAP HANA:
.. it's literally the only one, and even that is a pure benchmarking win, not a real-world one, afaik.
And I think everything else you can find is basically academic papers with made-up loads (ie again just more "pure benchmarking").
In reality, TSX is disabled pretty much everywhere either due to outright CPU bugs, or due to all the side channel leaks.
Linus