It is a mess. I suggest that you and anyone else asking these questions pay attention to Microsoft a little bit, to receive all of the information that there i

It is a mess. I suggest that you and anyone else asking these questions pay attention to Microsoft a little bit, to receive all of the information that there is to be had on this. Microsoft has been telling people about problems with the mitigations up-front. There are, for starters, Microsoft KnowledgeBase articles detailing problems with older AMD CPUs and with anti-virus softwares that behave like rootkit viruses resulting in systems that will not boot, and web log articles discussing the performance considerations for server systems. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076660