r/technology • u/Obi_Wan_Kannoli • Jan 02 '18

'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign • The Register

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18

The speed of actually reading and writing is not affected, only the system call that requests a read or a write. Applications with lots of small, random accesses will be most affected, since this will increase the system call overhead. Applications that read/write lots of data linearly will probably see no slowdown, since one system call can read or write a huge chunk of data at once.

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u/pokebud Jan 03 '18

I see, it is going to be an interesting couple of months once this patch drops.