Disabling mitigations could improve performance, but I'm not sure whether it would change how the performance distribution looks. So, in my experience the dist

Disabling mitigations could improve performance, but I'm not sure whether it would change how the performance distribution looks. So, in my experience the distribution is a finite set of pulses, equivalently, the performance largely falls into some predefined level, where the fastest/best performance level is usually the most likely, and the levels roughly get less likely the worse/slower they are. So what I'm saying is that disabling hw-vuln may make all performance levels faster, but I doubt it would eliminate many of them. I'll for sure play around with that some day, though. Linux hw-vuln docs: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/ https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/