linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/microcode: Update late microcode in parallel

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Message-ID: <20190827122501.GD29752@zn.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:25:01 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>
Cc:     Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@...cle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com,
        konrad.wilk@...cle.com, patrick.colp@...cle.com,
        kanth.ghatraju@...cle.com, Jon.Grimm@....com,
        Thomas.Lendacky@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/microcode: Update late microcode in parallel

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 01:23:39PM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote:
> > Cloud customers have expressed discontent as services disappear for a
> > prolonged time. The restriction is that only one core goes through the
> s/one core/one thread of a core/
> 
> > update while other cores are quiesced.
> s/cores/other thread(s) of the core

Changed it to:

"Cloud customers have expressed discontent as services disappear for
a prolonged time. The restriction is that only one core (or only one
thread of a core in the case of an SMT system) goes through the update
while other cores (or respectively, SMT threads) are quiesced."

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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