Re: [Csgo_servers] meltdown / spectre patches performance impact

2018-01-07 Thread Brendan Heinonen
Srcds performance is not bounded by syscalls.  There aren't very many 
syscalls in srcds' hotpath (except for maybe networking), and since KPTI 
is only activated during a sysenter and sysexit, I wouldn't expect 
/Meltdown/ mitigations, particularly KPTI, to have a noticeable impact 
on srcds performance.



On 1/7/2018 03:31, Marco Padovan wrote:

Hi,

what are you seeing as performance impacts after updating the kernel 
and microcode to patch against those two hardware vulnerabilities?


On our test before/after we are not seeing negligible difference (if 
none at all), is this common to everybody and therefore csgo code 
didn't benefit much from the speculative predictions?


Cheers,
Marco


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[Csgo_servers] meltdown / spectre patches performance impact

2018-01-07 Thread Marco Padovan
Hi,

what are you seeing as performance impacts after updating the kernel and
microcode to patch against those two hardware vulnerabilities?

On our test before/after we are not seeing negligible difference (if none
at all), is this common to everybody and therefore csgo code didn't benefit
much from the speculative predictions?

Cheers,
Marco
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