Meltdown and Spectre information update

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Even a broken watch is right twice a day!

(I've always wanted to use that :)

On 01/08/2018 12:18 AM, Zachary Crownover wrote:
> Phoronix is about as reliable on benchmarks as a broken watch is on telling time.
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> On Jan 7, 2018 2:16 PM, "Hleb Valoshka" <375gnu at gmail.com <mailto:375gnu at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 1/7/18, Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com <mailto:dillon at backplane.com>> wrote:
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>      > The Meltdown protection is now stable in the master branch.  A number of
>      > minor bugs were fixed after the initial commit.  I am looking into possibly
>      > getting into -stable but I don't know yet.
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>     Phoronix's benchmarks show quite large performance drop:
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>     https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=dragonfly-bsd-meltdown&num=2 <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=dragonfly-bsd-meltdown&num=2>
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