Re: hyper-threading...

2018-06-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-06-22, Dan Campbell wrote: > Just saw the news about you disabling hyper-threading by default on Intel > CPUs for security reasons, which I agree with. It would be nice to be able > to do this on systems that don't have a toggle for it in the BIOS, as it > increase

Re: hyper-threading...

2018-06-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:18:31 -0700 > The current release (not distro) already has a fix for it: > https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.3/common/010_intelfpu.patch.sig That is the FPU fix. The hyper threading has landed in current/snapshots but not in stable yet. Also, I expe

Re: hyper-threading...

2018-06-22 Thread jungle Boogie
On 22 June 2018 at 13:14, Dan Campbell wrote: > Just saw the news about you disabling hyper-threading by default on Intel > CPUs for security reasons, which I agree with. It would be nice to be able > to do this on systems that don't have a toggle for it in the BIOS, as it >

hyper-threading...

2018-06-22 Thread Dan Campbell
Just saw the news about you disabling hyper-threading by default on Intel CPUs for security reasons, which I agree with. It would be nice to be able to do this on systems that don't have a toggle for it in the BIOS, as it increases single-threaded performance. So just wondering when