Re: Scheduler benchmarks

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Aug 19 2020 - 12:47:20 EST


On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:43:52PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 12:42:54 +0200, Greg KH said:
> > Look up Spectre and Meltdown for many many examples of what happened and
> > what went wrong with chip designs and how we had to fix these things in
> > the kernel a few years ago.
>
> And I'm sure that nobody sane thinks we're done with security holes
> caused by speculative execution... :)

Hah, not at all, the patches keep flowing in, as do the microcode
updates...