Intel hardware bug

[Brett Glass]

It's a huge fail. One can apparently use speculative execution to create memory
leaks. Some Intel processors without speculative execution - such as the
Atom CPUs (including the embedded ones) - won't be affected, 
whereas the bigger,
fancier i3, i5, i7, and Xeon processors will. It's unclear on which side of the
line the Atom C2000 series (which had out-of-order but not 
speculative execution)
will lie.

Hopefully, when FreeBSD develops kernel patches to address the bug, it will
exempt the unaffected processors. (I do a lot of work for embedded 
Atoms, and hope
that they will not be slowed by patches intended for CPUs that actually need
them.)

--Brett Glass

At 06:56 PM 1/2/2018, Joey Kelly wrote:

>On Tuesday, January 02, 2018 08:52:27 PM Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > I am guessing this will impact FreeBSD as well ?
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
>
>No way around it. It's hardware FAIL, and ignoring it isn't an option since
>it's apparently a huge hole.
>
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>Joey Kelly
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