Top "Msr" questions

MSR (Model-Specific Registers) are registers inside the CPU that provide direct access to advanced CPU features.

How can the L1, L2, L3 CPU caches be turned off on modern x86/amd64 chips?

Every modern high-performance CPU of the x86/x86_64 architecture has some hierarchy of data caches: L1, L2, and sometimes L3 (…

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