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It depends on how long it takes for Intel to go through all regression tests for all affected platforms. If it takes several months to complete, a countermeasur
by zimmerfrei 9y ago
It depends on how long it takes for Intel to go through all regression tests for all affected platforms. If it takes several months to complete, a countermeasure in the kernel update may still be the better stopgap.
Or maybe it could be that Intel privately disclosed already that no backport will be done to firmware of older CPUs, in which case the kernel update is the stopgap for newer generation and the solution for older generations.
- dx034 9y agoThey knew of the issue since June. Now that the patches are out it'll be hard to regain the performance. I doubt they are able to issue a microcode update within the following months. Otherwise large clients such as AWS would have implemented that instead.