Hi,

I saw a considerable slowdown with a microbenchmark on Linux systems with 
KPTI enabled vs. it being disabled.
The benchmark performs no I/O but it is very futex-syscall-heavy. I 
unfortunately did not have the time to
investigate further, but I also have the suspicion that the pagetable 
switching overhead when performing these
syscalls is to blame. I would also be interested in more input on this.

Regards,
Marvin

On Monday, January 15, 2018 at 6:40:07 PM UTC+1, Francesco Nigro wrote:
>
> Hi guys!
>
> Any of you have already measured (or simply know) if OS mutexes are 
> somehow affected by Spectre/Meltdown?
>
> Cheers,
> Franz
>
>

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