Benchmarking Clear Linux With KPTI + Retpoline Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 9 January 2018 at 08:39 AM EST. Page 3 of 5. 22 Comments.
Clear Linux KPTI + Retpoline Patches
Clear Linux KPTI + Retpoline Patches
Clear Linux KPTI + Retpoline Patches

Fortunately, in many of the CPU-focused benchmarks, there is no real change in performance.

Clear Linux KPTI + Retpoline Patches
Clear Linux KPTI + Retpoline Patches

For workloads that stear clear of dealing with the kernel directly, the performance impact of KPTI and Retpoline tends to be minimal.


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