Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Preliminary STIBP Fixes Restore Linux 4.20 Performance - Tom's Hardware


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Preliminary STIBP Fixes Restore Linux 4.20 Performance
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Linux users can rejoice: work-in-progress changes to the Linux 4.20 kernel's implementation of the Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP) mitigation appear to restore performance on Intel systems. Now instead of taking up to a 50% performance ...
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