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Re:ECCploit is the first Rowhammer attack to defeat error-co... by avianes on Friday November 23, 2018 @11:50AM (#18517483)
> This avoids reading the same row over and over again

Didn't you notice a huge drop in performance producing row-buffer conflicts over and over ?

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Re:ECCploit is the first Rowhammer attack to defeat error-co... by leghifla on Friday November 23, 2018 @02:53PM (#18518538)
Good question. Jumping around the memory is clearly not good for throughput. Before the change, the mixing of requests between processes was already detrimental for performance anyway. All I can say is that we needed a fixed bandwidth and it was enough, before or after the change.
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