Re: Data Independent Timing on arm64

2022-10-01 Thread Mark Kettenis
> From: "Theo de Raadt" > Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 09:37:01 -0600 > > Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > Armv8.4 introduced a feature that provides data independent timing for > > data processing instructions. This feature is obviously introduced to > > mitigate timing side-channel attacks. Presumably

Re: problem with interrupts on machines with many cores and multiqueue nics

2022-10-01 Thread Mark Kettenis
> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 20:43:31 +0200 > From: Hrvoje Popovski > > Hi all, > > I have 3 machines where I can reproduce problem in subject. > Dell R6515 16 core with 4 mcx (64 queues). One mcx have 16 queues. If I > lower number of cpus to 12 which lowers number of queues for mcx to 12, >

Re: wc(1): add -L flag to write length of longest line

2022-10-01 Thread Sebastian Benoit
Theo de Raadt(dera...@openbsd.org) on 2022.09.30 11:11:42 -0600: > I'm sure there are other people have other desireable features which I > haven't listed. For instance, could wc.c be the scaffold to use for the > long-desired web browser to be included in OpenBSD? Oh, it's clearly incomplete

Re: HiFive Unmatched clean poweroff using the power button

2022-10-01 Thread Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
On Thu, Aug 18 2022, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > Some time ago I wanted to get a clean poweroff from the power button on > my Unmatched, so that I don't get fsck at reboot the morning after > someone sleeps in the room where the machine lives. kettenis kindly > provided sfgpio(4) to get

Re: Data Independent Timing on arm64

2022-10-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
Mark Kettenis wrote: > Armv8.4 introduced a feature that provides data independent timing for > data processing instructions. This feature is obviously introduced to > mitigate timing side-channel attacks. Presumably enabling the feature > has some impact on performance as it would disable

Data Independent Timing on arm64

2022-10-01 Thread Mark Kettenis
Armv8.4 introduced a feature that provides data independent timing for data processing instructions. This feature is obviously introduced to mitigate timing side-channel attacks. Presumably enabling the feature has some impact on performance as it would disable certain optimizations to guarantee

Re: wc(1): add -L flag to write length of longest line

2022-10-01 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:22:34AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 08:39:16PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > wc counts items in files. Finding the longest item indeed sounds > > like a task better suited to awk. > > Finding outliers, means and counting are all parts