KPTI + Retpoline Linux Benchmarking On Older Clarksfield / Penryn ThinkPads
Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 11 January 2018 at 10:00 AM EST. Page 4 of 6. 35 Comments.
The FLAC audio encoding performance wasn't affected by the Spectre and Retpoline mitigation.
The boot time was impacted slightly on the more secure kernel.
Darktable RAW photography software was minimally impacted by these latest kernel patches.