HiSilicon Posts SMT Run-Time Control Patches For ARM64 Linux

[qsmcomp]

Way ahead!

[wangling]

Britoid is about to go poof, for talking about the Chinese security agency...
RIP Britoid

RIP Britoid

[marios]

Yes but at least the NSA doesn't make you poof when you talk about them.

Britoid is about to go poof, for talking about the Chinese security agency...
RIP Britoid

[Vistaus]

Yes but at least the NSA doesn't make you poof when you talk about them.

You mean like how they wanted to poof Snowden before he escaped the country?

[Britoid]

We should ban them so NSA has it all.

Yes but at least the NSA doesn't make you poof when you talk about them.

[marios]

They should add run-time control for the backdoors too.

I agree. This control for Intel/AMD/Apple/Qualcomm/etc CPUs should come first though...

[clementhk]

They should add run-time control for the backdoors too.

We should ban them so NSA has it all.

[Britoid]

They should add run-time control for the backdoors too.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: HiSilicon Posts SMT Run-Time Control Patches For ARM64 Linux

While Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) isn't as common on Arm SoCs as it is in the x86 and POWER worlds, there are some SMT-capable designs like with the HiSilicon Kupeng 930 for Arm servers. HiSilicon engineers are working now to extend Linux's SMT run-time controls to work on ARM64 (AArch64)...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-ARM64-Run-Time-SMT-Switch