The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches

Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by jtchang on Monday January 01, 2018 @02:01PM (#16047435)

Umm this is very shortsighted and absolutely trash.

There are many types of users and some don't care if it fails in a blue moon. Hell 99% might be good enough if the price was right.

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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by blattimwind on Monday January 01, 2018 @02:55PM (#16047696)

99% would basically be the region where the CPU itself can't power on any more because it is too unreliable to execute any kind of power-on sequence.

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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by dang on Monday January 01, 2018 @03:55PM (#16047992)

Please don't call names in arguments here. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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