| Steve Litt on 4 Jan 2018 10:12:47 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches |
On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 15:31:50 -0500 Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 1:02 PM, K.S. Bhaskar <bhaskar@bhaskars.com> > wrote: > > If the speculation at > > http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table > > is correct, the details should be very interesting, and may have > > interesting consequences. > > > > Looks like the rumors might be pushing up the embargo, unless it was > due anyway. The fixes were just released in a couple of stable > kernels a few minutes ago. I noticed that at least the 4.14 fix > doesn't include the AMD patch that disables the setting on AMD CPUs. Hi Rich, By "disables the setting on AMD CPUs", do you mean disables KVM type hardware assisted Virtual Machines, or do you mean it disables something else? I can withstand a 30% performance hit, but I really need my Virtual Machines. When confronted with the 30% performance hit, I'll be looking for a much lighter browser to replace Chromium. Everything else I run is pretty light and fast. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug