Re:Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors
by Sir_Substance on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:02PM
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>And I am saying that the confidence interval on that calculation is just orders of magnitude not tight enough.
You're also saying, implicitly, that therefore we must default to assuming it is incompetence.
That link isn't a given. Stating that it is incompetence is also speculation, not some kind of universal backup truth.
However, when it comes to that last 5%, I assert that the historical data does not back a claim that Intel's marketing department is incompetent.
And I am saying that the confidence interval on that calculation is just orders of magnitude not tight enough. I am not denying that you could be right. It's just that I am giving that possibility something like a 1% chance of being true, while something like 85% chance of this being pure incompetence by Intel management and engineers (the rest being some other explanation that's neither malice nor direct incompetence). I don't think you and I can find a common ground on this estimation.
Again though, ME is a bad thing because it's not open source, it can't be turned of, and it's buggy. Regardless of who ordered its creation, it sucks.