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Re:Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You ... by h4b4n3r0 on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @04:39AM (#17764538)
Not in Google’s case. There vCPU == hyperthread. To quote https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types: "For the n1 series of machine types, a vCPU is implemented as a single hardware hyper-thread". One more area where Google is more explicit. Only their partial vCPU instances are timesliced: "Shared-core machine types provide one vCPU that is allowed to run for a portion of the time on a single hardware hyper-thread on the host CPU running your instance".
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Re:Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You ... by cthalupa on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @08:45PM (#17771015)
Except this thread has been about AWS, not Google.

Who cares how Google defines things?

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Re:Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You ... by h4b4n3r0 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:09PM (#17778062)
It was about both.
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