Re:PCID is now a critical performance/security feature on x86
by monocasa on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:54PM
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They're Intel and AMD extensions respectively. They're tacked onto the virtualization extensions, and since every implementor (Xen, KVM, etc.) has just wrote separate backends for VT and SVM anyway, Intel and AMD haven't found the need to negotiate cross licensing.
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