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KPTI Articles & Reviews

The "What If" Performance Cost To Kernel Page Table Isolation On AMD CPUs   Software   2021-10-15
32-Bit Linux Prepares For Performance Hit Due To KPTI For Meltdown Mitigation   Software   2018-07-25
An Early Look At The Linux 4.16 Kernel Performance With AMD EPYC   Software   2018-03-10
Fresh Linux 4.16 Kernel Benchmarks With KPTI & Retpolines   Software   2018-03-05
19-Way CPU Comparison On Ubuntu With Linux 4.15   Processors   2018-02-12
Linux 4.0 To Linux 4.15 Kernel Benchmarks   Software   2018-01-24
EXT4 vs. XFS vs. Btrfs vs. F2FS With Linux 4.15 Comparing KPTI/Retpoline   Storage   2018-01-20
Benchmarking Ubuntu's Low-Latency Kernel & Liquorix Post-Meltdown   Software   2018-01-14
Tweaking Ubuntu 17.10 To Try To Run Like Clear Linux   Operating Systems   2018-01-13
KPTI + Retpoline Linux Benchmarking On Old Laptops   Software   2018-01-11
NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At The Start Of 2018   Display Drivers   2018-01-10
Benchmarking Clear Linux With KPTI + Retpoline Support   Operating Systems   2018-01-09
Benchmarking Linux With The Retpoline Patches For Spectre   Software   2018-01-08
DragonFlyBSD's Meltdown Fix Causing More Slowdowns Than Linux   Operating Systems   2018-01-07
Radeon+Ryzen CPUFreq CPU Scaling Governor Benchmarks On Linux 4.15   Linux Gaming   2018-01-07
Docker Performance With KPTI Page Table Isolation Patches   Operating Systems   2018-01-06
Wine Takes Minor Performance Hit Running Windows Programs On Linux With KPTI   Computers   2018-01-05
Linux KPTI Tests Using Linux 4.14 vs. 4.9 vs. 4.4   Software   2018-01-04
NVIDIA Gaming Performance Minimally Impacted By KPTI Patches   Linux Gaming   2018-01-04
VM Performance Showing Mixed Impact With Linux 4.15 KPTI Patches   Software   2018-01-03

KPTI Linux & Open-Source News

Wine 9.1 Released With Better Dvorak Keyboard Detection, Input Method Improvements   WINE   2024-01-27
Linux 6.5 On AArch64 Sees New Extensions, KPTI Cleanup   Arm   2023-06-27
Linux To Disable PCID For Intel Alder Lake & Raptor Lake Due To Issue With INVLPG   Linux Kernel   2023-05-21
Linux 6.2 Addresses Another "Tasty Target For Attackers"   Linux Kernel   2022-12-13
ARM64 With Linux 5.20 Improves Its Meltdown Mitigation KPTI Code   Arm   2022-07-30
Google Posts New ASI Patches For KVM To Help Fight Off Speculative Execution Attacks   Virtualization   2022-02-24
Linux I/O Optimizations, AMD Improvements, NVIDIA GBM Excited Linux Users Last Month   Phoronix   2021-11-01
VMware Engineer Revises Work On Concurrent TLB Flushes For Linux   Linux Kernel   2021-02-23
Oracle Proposing Change To Linux's KPTI Meltdown Mitigation   Linux Security   2020-11-10
Linux 5.10 Xen Brings Security Updates - Includes Fixing ARM Guests With KPTI   Virtualization   2020-10-20
Kernel ASI Still Being Worked On For Protecting Against Hyper Threading Data Leaks   Linux Security   2020-08-26
AMD Programmer Manual Update Points To PCID Support, Memory Protection Keys   AMD   2020-04-29
Arm Has Many Changes On Tap For Linux 5.6 From Spectre/Meltdown Bits To New RNG   Arm   2020-01-24
AMD Dominated The Conversation Among Linux/Open-Source Fans In July   Phoronix   2019-08-01
Linux's 32-Bit Kernel Has Been Buggy Since Being Mitigated For Meltdown   Linux Kernel   2019-07-28
FreeBSD Had A Very Busy Q1-2019 As It Approaches Its 26th Birthday   BSD   2019-06-04
That's A Wrap For 2018 With 3,693 News Articles, 314 Linux Hardware Reviews/Benchmarks   Phoronix   2018-12-31
NVIDIA's 2018 Linux Highlights Included Some Open-Source Milestones, But Not Many   NVIDIA   2018-12-30
Ubuntu Had A Very Busy 2018 But Not Everything Turned Out As Planned   Ubuntu   2018-12-30
The Most Popular AMD/Radeon Linux News Of 2018   AMD   2018-12-26
Another Minor Optimization Queued For Systems Mitigated Against Spectre / Meltdown   Linux Kernel   2018-09-08
A Batch Of x86 Speculation Fixes Headed To The Linux 4.19 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-09-02
32-bit PTI For Mitigating Meltdown Is Causing Problems With Early Linux 4.19 Builds   Linux Kernel   2018-08-30
A Lot Of Spectre Changes Land In The Linux 4.19 Git Tree, Possible Performance Impact   Linux Security   2018-08-14
There Are A Ton Of New Features/Improvements Heading Towards Linux 4.19   Linux Kernel   2018-07-26
Meltdown Protection For x86 32-bit Aligned For The Linux 4.19 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-07-20
PTI Support To Address Meltdown Nearing The Finish Line For x86 32-bit Linux   Linux Kernel   2018-07-18
Oracle Solaris 11.4 Public Beta Updated With KPTI For Addressing Meltdown   Oracle   2018-07-17
Xen Hypervisor 4.11 Released With Many Core Improvements   Virtualization   2018-07-10
CentOS 6.10 Released, Scientific Linux 6.10 Coming Next Week   Red Hat   2018-07-06
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Released With Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation   Red Hat   2018-06-20
Spectre V2 & Meltdown Linux Fixes Might Get Disabled For Atom N270 & Other In-Order CPUs   Linux Security   2018-05-23
OpenIndiana Hipster 2018.04, Drops GNOME 2 For MATE + Adds KPTI For Meltdown   Oracle   2018-04-28
A Last Minute Linux 4.17 Pull To Help Non-PCID Systems With KPTI Meltdown Performance   Linux Kernel   2018-04-15
Linux 4.16 Reaches Its First Point Release With Over 30 Fixes   Linux Kernel   2018-04-08
PCI, Crypto & Other Updates Head Into Linux 4.17   Linux Kernel   2018-04-07
OpenBSD 6.3 Released With Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation, ARM64 SMP Support   BSD   2018-04-02
Linux 4.16, Ubuntu 18.04 & Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Have Been Definitely Exciting   Phoronix   2018-03-31
More Windows Server vs. Linux Benchmark Tests With Spectre/Meltdown Mitigations   Linux Security   2018-03-31
ARM64 Prepping ARM v8.4 Features, KPTI Improvements For Linux 4.17   Arm   2018-03-27
Spectre/Meltdown Benchmarks & Evolving Linux GPU Drivers Dominated Q1-2018   Free Software   2018-03-25
Fresh Benchmarks Of CentOS 7 On Xeon & EPYC With/Without KPTI/Retpolines   Linux Kernel   2018-03-20
OpenIndiana Now Has KPTI Support Up For Testing To Mitigate Meltdown   Operating Systems   2018-03-06
Oracle Brings KPTI Meltdown Mitigation To Linux 4.1   Oracle   2018-03-06
VirtualBox 5.2.8 Released With Linux 4.15 Kernel Support, PCID For Guests   Virtualization   2018-02-28
Another Potential Performance Optimization For KPTI Meltdown Mitigation   Linux Kernel   2018-02-23
FreeBSD Finally Gets Mitigated For Spectre & Meltdown   Linux Security   2018-02-17
Linux 4.14 & 4.15 Get KPTI Protection For 64-bit ARM   Linux Kernel   2018-02-17
Spectre & KPTI Get More Fixes In Linux 4.16, Offsets Some KVM Performance Losses   Linux Security   2018-02-15
EPYC vs. Xeon Gold In Nearly 200 Tests With Ubuntu On Linux 4.15   Hardware   2018-02-12
Spectre V1 Mitigation & Other Spectre/Meltdown Updates For 64-bit ARM On Linux 4.16   Linux Security   2018-02-08
Spectre V1 Mitigation, IBPB Support Sent In For Linux 4.16   Linux Security   2018-02-04
Linux 4.16 Is Off To A Busy Start With Big New Features   Linux Kernel   2018-02-01
Spectre & Meltdown Defined January 2018   Phoronix   2018-02-01
Linux 4.16 Can Be A Lot Faster For Small I/O Activity   Linux Storage   2018-01-31
64-bit ARM Gets Mitigations For Spectre & Meltdown With Linux 4.16   Arm   2018-01-30
Microsoft Hyper-V Guests Get PCID Support With Linux 4.16   Microsoft   2018-01-30
Linux 4.15 Is Set To Sail Today With AMDGPU DC, Zen Temperature Monitoring, RISC-V   Linux Kernel   2018-01-28
Some Of The Features Coming To The Linux 4.16 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-01-21
Linux 4.15 Expected To Be Released Today, But It Might Be 4.15-rc9   Linux Kernel   2018-01-21
Experimental KPTI Support For x86 32-bit Linux   Intel   2018-01-19
openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls To Mesa 17.3, Linux 4.14.13   SUSE   2018-01-19
Ubuntu Preparing Kernel Updates With IBRS/IBPB For Spectre Mitigation   Linux Security   2018-01-18
NVIDIA 340.106 Legacy Driver Released For KPTI Compatibility   NVIDIA   2018-01-16
SteamOS Beta Switches To Linux 4.14.13 For KPTI To Mitigate Meltdown   Valve   2018-01-16
KPTI Support For 64-bit ARM Getting Buttoned Up Ahead Of Linux 4.16   Linux Kernel   2018-01-14
Ubuntu 17.10.1 ISOs Now Available To Avoid Thrashing Some UEFI Systems   Ubuntu   2018-01-13
The NVIDIA 390 Driver Is Playing Nicely With Linux 4.15 Kernel   NVIDIA   2018-01-10
The Combined Impact Of Retpoline + KPTI On Ubuntu Linux   Ubuntu   2018-01-09
Mesa 17.3.2 Released With The Latest Stable Fixes   Mesa   2018-01-09
Clear Linux Rolls Out KPTI Page Isolation & Retpoline Support   Clear Linux   2018-01-08
Linux 4.15-rc7 Kernel Released   Linux Kernel   2018-01-07
Retpoline v5 Published For Fending Off Spectre Branch Target Injection   Linux Security   2018-01-06
AMD Did NOT Disable Branch Prediction With A Zen Microcode Update   AMD   2018-01-06
Ubuntu 17.10 To Be Re-Released Next Week   Ubuntu   2018-01-05
Wine Performance May Be Impacted By Linux KPTI Patches   Linux Kernel   2018-01-05
More Linux Kernel & GCC Patches Come Out In The Wake Of Spectre+Meltdown   Linux Kernel   2018-01-04
Google Makes Disclosure About The CPU Vulnerability Affecting Intel / AMD / ARM   Google   2018-01-03
Linux Will End Up Disabling x86 PTI For AMD Processors - Update: Now Disabled   Linux Kernel   2018-01-03