On 03/01/18 22:01, nospam wrote:

intel claims no significant impact, although that's to be expected.

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/inte...y-research-fin
dings/
Contrary to some reports, any performance impacts are
workload-dependent, and, for the average computer user, should
not be significant and will be mitigated over time.


Well, they would say that, wouldn't they...

And I call "********" - if you are switching the kernel page maps in and
out and flushing the translation cache (TLB) on every software (syscall)
and hardware interrupt, it's going to cost...