[Bug 1789719] Re: severe performance issue after intel-microcode update

2018-12-28 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for intel-microcode (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: intel-microcode (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1789719] Re: severe performance issue after intel-microcode update

2018-10-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Setting to incomplete, since the fact that spectre, ssb and l1tf mitigations are expensive (and utterly so for some workloads) is well documented and well known, and there is nothing we can suggest unless we know the under-the-hood details of the affected workload. ** Changed in: intel-microcode

[Bug 1789719] Re: severe performance issue after intel-microcode update

2018-08-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Basically, *you* need to know if: 1. your workload does a LOT of syscalls (kernel entries from userspace) OR 2. your workload does a LOT of VMEXITs (runs on a VM) OR 3. uses Intel SGX (you're on your own in that case, go talk to Intel). Which are directly impacted by the microcode and/or

[Bug 1789719] Re: severe performance issue after intel-microcode update

2018-08-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
For guidance on how to set kernel parameters: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBootParameters -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1789719 Title: severe performance issue after

Re: [Bug 1789719] Re: severe performance issue after intel-microcode update

2018-08-30 Thread Jim Simmons
My workload is some trading performance tests that I've created, which aren't  going to help you.  If you can tell me how to revert to a previous intel-micrcode package I can try and come up with some narrow isolated test cases where the issue occurs and send you those. Thanks, Jim On

[Bug 1789719] Re: severe performance issue after intel-microcode update

2018-08-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
I am afraid you need to disclose a _lot_ more information about your workload for us to even have an idea how you'd hit such an extreme slowdown effect... Also, what mitigation modes have you enabled in the kernel, etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu