OpenSUSE Adds Option To Installer For Toggling Performance-Hitting CPU Mitigations

[Mel Spektor]

I've always like SuSE, nice work. Make SLES great again.

before ubuntu even existed, suse was ubuntu.

[xorbe]

Disable per-process page tables for additional performance : ☑

[andyprough]

This is good to see, and I'll bet they've built a YaST module too then, so you can make the same changes after installation.

[zxy_thf]

This is a very welcome change! Those mitigations make little sense if only trusted code will be executed.

[k1e0x]

I've always like SuSE, nice work. Make SLES great again.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenSUSE Adds Option To Installer For Toggling Performance-Hitting CPU Mitigations

With the newly released openSUSE Leap 15.1 they have added an option to their installer for toggling the CPU mitigations around Spectre / Meltdown / Foreshadow / Zombieload to make it very convenient should you choose to retain maximum performance while foregoing the security measures. But it also allows disabling SMT/HT from the installer should you prefer maximum security...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenSUSE-Installer-Mitigations