On Aug 30, 2006, at 12:12 PM, backyard wrote:
with HT disabling in FreeBSD is more for the security issues about a potential exploit whereby one process in one pipe can access the priveledged information of a process in another pipe because the two cores share one processor cache and thus one cache table. To my knowledge this hasn't been exploited yet.
How is this any different than say an Intel Core Duo or Core 2 Duo? I believe they have a shared cache as well for each (real) processor core.
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