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Re:Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors by ambrop7 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:13PM (#16055701)
I think syscalls are not as slow as many people imagine they are, especially with modern CPUs and kernels (there are special instruction for syscalls that are faster than the old "interrupt" approach). See here: http://pzemtsov.github.io/2017/07/23/the-slow-currenttimemil... ("Off-topic: A system call"). But they will be slow with this mitigation.

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