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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
MUCH More Detailed Link On This Issue From Python Sweetnes
Linux Kernel Patch Page
This means real trouble for anything and anyone who uses the internet. With proper exploits, a simple JavaScript program from a web page could read into your kernel space!
Performance impact is hard to assess, because the performance hit would depend on how many times your application hits kernel memory. But I would expect the biggest impact from things like databases, and other I/O heavy apps.
We won't have official performance impact numbers on Windows for a month, when Microsoft makes the patch official. We might get some Linux benches earlier than that.
But that could be enough to close the gap between AMD's Zen and Kaby Lake. Because this bug and corresponding software patch only applies to Intel.
And you all remember what the performance impact happened with AMD's TLB bug on Phenom version 1.0
MUCH More Detailed Link On This Issue From Python Sweetnes
Linux Kernel Patch Page
This means real trouble for anything and anyone who uses the internet. With proper exploits, a simple JavaScript program from a web page could read into your kernel space!
Performance impact is hard to assess, because the performance hit would depend on how many times your application hits kernel memory. But I would expect the biggest impact from things like databases, and other I/O heavy apps.
We won't have official performance impact numbers on Windows for a month, when Microsoft makes the patch official. We might get some Linux benches earlier than that.
But that could be enough to close the gap between AMD's Zen and Kaby Lake. Because this bug and corresponding software patch only applies to Intel.
And you all remember what the performance impact happened with AMD's TLB bug on Phenom version 1.0
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