Intel's PR dept is in overdrive, but the truth about this vulnerability is that it's essentially worst-case.
It really only affects workloads where high performance is important. The average user might not see an impact but if you need fast IO God help you. The solution is to 'make less syscalls' but the problem is that syscalls have always been slow and the people making a lot of them are only doing so because they absolutely have to
It really only affects workloads where high performance is important. The average user might not see an impact but if you need fast IO God help you. The solution is to 'make less syscalls' but the problem is that syscalls have always been slow and the people making a lot of them are only doing so because they absolutely have to