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AMD Zen 1 Linux Performance Hit From Retbleed, Accumulated CPU Mitigation Impact

Disabling SMT can hurt a lot for database workloads like RocksDB.

At least the web browser performance on AMD Zen 1 with mitigations hasn't been impacted as much as older Intel CPUs.