Re:The Next Vulnerability: Looking Back on Meltdown and Spec...
by gpderetta on Saturday February 09, 2019 @02:22PM
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I do not understand your distinction between prefect and fetch. You either have the data, and you need to notify other cores that you do or you don't.
Not notifying other CPUs seems pointless because before committing you would have to do a round-trip to the other core to verify whether the data is still valid making the prefetching pointless.
Not notifying other CPUs seems pointless because before committing you would have to do a round-trip to the other core to verify whether the data is still valid making the prefetching pointless.