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Linux 6.2's Call Depth Tracking Helps Recover Lost Performance On Intel Skylake CPUs

For various Linux server workloads on this Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 system, running with Call Depth Tracking provided a performance boost (retbleed=stuff) over the stock mitigations but still there is heavy cost with the other CPU security mitigations involved.