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

[deusexmachina]

"I'll give you more security at the cost of performance" means "I don't really know how computers work, but I'm gonna guess."

[geearf]

as offline gang can i disable this useless patch ?

Why do you need to disable this patch?

[StarterX4]

mitigations=off

[CochainComplex]

...somehow I've got the impression all this mitigations are converging to the switched off state of a computer

[hotaru]

...somehow I've got the impression all this mitigations are converging to the switched off state of a computer

maybe eventually, but at least right now Intel CPUs are still faster than a 6502.

[CochainComplex]

maybe eventually, but at least right now Intel CPUs are still faster than a 6502.

I think even the RGB controller is