Re: [PATCH RFC 06/10] virprocess: Core Scheduling support

2022-05-24 Thread Michal Prívozník
On 5/23/22 19:00, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 05:02:13PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: >> Since its 5.14 release the Linux kernel allows userspace to >> define trusted groups of processes/threads that can run on >> sibling Hyper Threads (HT) at the same time. This is to mit

Re: [PATCH RFC 06/10] virprocess: Core Scheduling support

2022-05-23 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 05:02:13PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > Since its 5.14 release the Linux kernel allows userspace to > define trusted groups of processes/threads that can run on > sibling Hyper Threads (HT) at the same time. This is to mitigate > side channel attacks like L1TF or MDS. If

[PATCH RFC 06/10] virprocess: Core Scheduling support

2022-05-09 Thread Michal Privoznik
Since its 5.14 release the Linux kernel allows userspace to define trusted groups of processes/threads that can run on sibling Hyper Threads (HT) at the same time. This is to mitigate side channel attacks like L1TF or MDS. If there are no tasks to fully utilize all HTs, then a HT will idle instead