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    The Performance Cost of Security Mitigation on Linux 4.19

    Michael Larabel from Phoronix has run three Intel Xeon and two AMD EPYC systems through a battery of testing including a virtual machine to determine the performance cost that security mitigation patches such as Spectre, Meltdown, and Foreshadow have had on the platforms under Linux. The Linux...
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    • amd benchmark foreshadow hyper-threading linux linux 4.19 meltdown michael laradel phoronix security mitigation security patch smt spectre testing vm
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    OpenBSD Co-Founder Drops Hyper-Threading Support to Mitigate Foreshadow Attacks

    Theo de Raadt, an OpenBSD co-founder has officially announced that the open-source operating system will not utilize Hyper-threading for Intel processors. He complains that Intel isn't telling them about upcoming discovered threats and the steps that an OS developer needs to take to mitigate...
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    • disable hyper-threading disable smt foreshadow hyper-threading intel mitigation open-source openbsd operating system os smt t1tf theo de raadt tlbleed
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