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Retbleed fix slugs Linux VM performance by up to 70 percent (theregister.com)
14 points by slivanes on Sept 13, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



If you're not concerned about being vulnerable to such attacks, booting your kernel with:

    retbleed=off
Restores the lost performance. Personally, I run with:

    mitigations=off
in the kernel options to avoid all the spectre slow downs.




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