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Linux Kernel Patches To Use AMD INVLPGB Instruction Show Huge Speed-Up (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

the Linux kernel hasn't widely made use of INVLPGB... In part because Intel engineers typically carry out much of the new x86 instruction optimizations within the Linux kernel and Intel processors do not currently support INVLPGB.

Sounds like AMD needs to fund more kernel development.