The Combined Impact Of Mitigations On Cascade Lake Following Recent JCC Erratum + TAA

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 24 November 2019 at 10:37 AM EST. Page 6 of 7. 14 Comments.
Cascade Lake TSX + Mitigations + New Microcode

At least MariaDB/MySQL really wasn't affected at least in our test configuration.

Cascade Lake TSX + Mitigations + New Microcode

PostgreSQL read performance on Cascade Lake was only hit when running with the "TSX + No HT" configuration.

Cascade Lake TSX + Mitigations + New Microcode

Likewise, the SQLite speedtest just suffered from the TSX Async Abort code.

Cascade Lake TSX + Mitigations + New Microcode

The context switching performance was hit by the TSX Async Abort when TSX is enabled.

Cascade Lake TSX + Mitigations + New Microcode
Cascade Lake TSX + Mitigations + New Microcode
Cascade Lake TSX + Mitigations + New Microcode
Cascade Lake TSX + Mitigations + New Microcode

Facebook's RocksDB server software was also hit hard by TAA but not so much the other mitigations.


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