Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday, 5 January 2018 01:18:23 GMT Rich Freeman wrote:

> I believe CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT isn't actually modifiable via make
> config - it is a dependency and I think it is there to indicate
> whether the feature is supported (maybe it is arch-specific, or there
> is some complex rule for it being available - I didn't dig through the
> Makefiles).

Just to confirm that, menuconfig here shows:

Symbol: HAVE_EBPF_JIT [=y]                                                                  
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│ Type  : boolean                                                                               
│   Defined at net/Kconfig:436                                                                  
│   Selected by: X86 [=y] && X86_64 [=y]                                                      

So it's on, like it or not. This is kernel 4.9.72 on an i7-5820K.

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Regards,
Peter.