Article 5462F Want A More Secure Computer At The Cost Of Performance? Linux 5.8 Landing L1d Flushing

Want A More Secure Computer At The Cost Of Performance? Linux 5.8 Landing L1d Flushing

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For those very concerned about CPU data sampling vulnerabilities, the Linux 5.8 kernel comes with the ability to flush the L1 data cache on each context switch. That's good for security, but will hurt the system performance with all the excess L1 cache flushing...
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