AMD IS DISABLING BRANCH PREDICTION
PANIC
lists.opensuse.org
AMD IS DISABLING BRANCH PREDICTION
PANIC
lists.opensuse.org
What a disasster
In English, doc
OH NO NO NO NO
OPENSUSE CAN'T READ AND IS DISABLING BRANCH PREDICTION ON AMD
THESE ARE THE GENIUSES WHO SIGNED MICROSOFT'S WE INFRINGED BUT DON'T SUE US THING
prepare 4 more performance killing patches to fix yet another security whole
amd go very slow very soon
In some cases, spectre2 allows a process to view its own pages on AMD. While this is nowhere in the league of the Intel flaw which allows a process to view any other process' memory and secrets, there are cases where it may be preferable to not have this behaviour at all such as high-security installations. Disabling branch prediction is a sane stance in a defence in depth approach, if only prophylactic.
Good thing opensuse isn't used for anything that matters.
Enjoy your gimped linux distro.
Good thing I don't use Linux on my Ryzen.
This only affects LinuxPajeets. Windows masterrace unaffected
people uses suse?
>Opensuse
>Ever
>I've heard back from AMD.... At least this PR person is saying: . “Disabling branch prediction” is definitely not an accurate description and we are working to address with SUSE now.
phoronix.com
Inaccurate patch notes.
My understanding is that it only disables indirect branch prediction. Still going to be awful for performance though!
They are doing the same as the Intel microcode update presumably, offering kernel a bit to enable/disable indirect branch speculation. Usually it will be disabled on entry into kernel and reenabled on exit, so it helps the kernel, not necessary user programs spying on each other (retpoline for those)
Aemdee go maek msn lood sloawer d00ode
>openSUSE
NOOOO i don't want lesser performance than BROADWELL! It will go back to bulldozer levels!
OpenSuSe? wtf is that kind of obscure BSD distro? Does anyone even use it? and for what?
The processor literally can't function in any meaningful capacity without a branch predictor being operable. These patch notes are simply inaccurate.
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How many Intel shills are in Distros mailists?
techlet or top bait right here