[Bug 2042564] Re: Performance regression in the 5.15 Ubuntu 20.04 kernel compared to 5.4 Ubuntu 20.04 kernel

2024-04-24 Thread Joseph Salisbury
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[Bug 2042564] Re: Performance regression in the 5.15 Ubuntu 20.04 kernel compared to 5.4 Ubuntu 20.04 kernel

2024-02-29 Thread Joseph Salisbury
I performed a bisect between the 5.4 and 5.15 kernels. The performance regression was introduced by a stable update in 5.15.57 by the following commit: 62b4db57eefec ("x86/entry: Add kernel IBRS implementation") This commit applies IBRS kernel mitigation for Spectre_v2. IBRS is: Indirect