Monday, November 26, 2018

Spectre mitigation guts Linux 4.20 performance - Naked Security


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Spectre mitigation guts Linux 4.20 performance
Naked Security
One of Intel's fixes for the Spectre variant 2 chip flaw (CVE- 2017-5715) appears to have taken a big bite out of the performance of the latest Linux kernel. The mitigation in question is the Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP), one of ...