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Re:Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-C... by jeffbee on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:18PM (#26388369)
"Too aggressive" is just, like, your opinion, man. There are tons of workloads where only maximum throughput or lowest latency are important and the operators of those systems don't care one jot about side channel attacks.
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Re:Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-C... by wizzwizz4 on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:27PM (#26389510)
And PC / general-purpose CPUs aren't such a workload.
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Re:Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-C... by cthalupa on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:10AM (#26398880)
They aren't?

I know a significant number of people who have disabled spectre and meltdown protections in favor of higher performance because they are not concerned at all about side channel attacks.

Single tenant workloads that run no untrusted code that are not public facing are not exactly a unicorn.

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