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Re:Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You ... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:28PM (#17763363)
> Optimal use of vCPUs would demand that two VM threads get scheduled to the core to take advantage of HT

It would.

So those cores won't be used optimally. No big deal.

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Re:Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You ... by smolder on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @02:10PM (#17768321)
Yeah, and the throughput of HT threads on an already busy core was not that high, last I checked.
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