Linux Patches Rewrite The Retpoline Rewrite Code - Possible Performance Benefit

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Linux Patches Rewrite The Retpoline Rewrite Code - Possible Performance Benefit

13 October 2021, 02:20 PM

Phoronix: Linux Patches Rewrite The Retpoline Rewrite Code - Possible Performance Benefit

The Linux kernel has supported Retpolines for over three years now as part of their Spectre Variant Two mitigations while now a patch series is proposed that rewrites Retpoline's rewrite logic...

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14 October 2021, 01:16 PM

Bad news, soon mitigations=off will no longer be a performance boost for us Intel users
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