The Downfall Mitigation Impact For Xeon E-2300 Series On Linux 6.5

The Downfall Mitigation Impact For Xeon E-2300 Series On Linux 6.5: Last month the Downfall CPU security vulnerability was disclosed that impacts various AVX/AVX-512 workloads. Now that there's been a few weeks for the Linux kernel code to settle around the mitigation and the latest Intel CPU microcode becoming more broadly available, here is a fresh look at the performance impact of the Downfall mitigation on affected AVX workloads.