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Re:Hertzbleed Attack by depereo on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:54PM (#31744219)
I am on the cloud provider side; we would sometimes limit the upper and lower range of frequency but completely disabling scaling would be very unusual.
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Re:Hertzbleed Attack by href on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @06:02PM (#31746608)
Same. Our compute hosts are generally not using 100% of their cores at all time.

There’s computes that are not full, computes that run rather diverse tenants, and even the fully utilized computes responsible for CPU optimized VMs have enough variance in their workload for frequency scaling to occur.

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