[smc-discuss] Intel Bug

Balasankar C balasankarc at autistici.org
Tue Jan 30 20:04:33 PST 2018



Hi,

On 2018, ജനുവരി 31 9:11:47 AM IST, Nandakumar Edamana <nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Hope you've patched your system against the "worst CPU bug ever", 
>Meltdown/Spectre. Did anyone notice the computer slowing down after 
>that? I am using GNU/Linux, now with Page Table Isolation, and
>sometimes 
>it slows down significantly (or is it just an illusion? 

No, it is not an illusion. Patches to Meltdown/Spectre do affect the performance as they limit the potential of speculative execution.
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