linux-kernel - Re: Scheduler benchmarks

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Date:   Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:47:35 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
Cc:     Muni Sekhar <munisekharrms@...il.com>,
        peter enderborg <peter.enderborg@...y.com>,
        kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scheduler benchmarks

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:43:52PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 12:42:54 +0200, Greg KH said:
> > Look up Spectre and Meltdown for many many examples of what happened and
> > what went wrong with chip designs and how we had to fix these things in
> > the kernel a few years ago.
> 
> And I'm sure that nobody sane thinks we're done with security holes
> caused by speculative execution... :)

Hah, not at all, the patches keep flowing in, as do the microcode
updates...