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Re:Make Linux Fast Again (2019) by nreece on Friday April 10, 2020 @05:20AM (#22831309)
Will these parameters work on a VM as well, or just a bare-metal host?

Edit: looks like "performance gained by disabling workarounds for the mostly Intel CPU security flaws are not all that impressive in all workloads": https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(...

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Re:Make Linux Fast Again (2019) by hanikesn on Friday April 10, 2020 @06:36AM (#22831653)
I think I/O heavy benchmarks would be much more useful as syscalls take the heaviest hit from the mitigations.
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