That's not debated and nobody mentioned that it's a 'surprise' there is a perf hit. The topic is related to now being the time to disable it as there seems to

That's not debated and nobody mentioned that it's a 'surprise' there is a perf hit. The topic is related to now being the time to disable it as there seems to be no need for it anymore due to a kernel patch, as well as Intel themselves publishing upstream without these. > Intel themselves have enabled this flag in their builds available on their Github release page upstream." > At this point, Spectre has been mitigated in the kernel, and a clear warning from the Compute Runtime build serves as a notification for those running modified kernels without those patches.