Syscalls are complex beasts, the patches for Meltdown only affect the bit where you transition between userspace and kernel space - this a static cost. Thus, wh

Syscalls are complex beasts, the patches for Meltdown only affect the bit where you transition between userspace and kernel space - this a static cost. Thus, when Avid Media Composer stats a few hundred files on a NAS far, far away from your CPU, the performance cost these patches incur will be negligible.