Meltdown Articles & Reviews |
| A Look At The CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown | Software | 2021-01-06 |
| Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact | Operating Systems | 2020-04-16 |
| The Desktop CPU Security Mitigation Impact On Ubuntu 20.04 | Operating Systems | 2020-04-13 |
| LLVM Lands Performance-Hitting Mitigation For Intel LVI Vulnerability | Software | 2020-04-03 |
| Looking At The Linux Performance Two Years After Spectre / Meltdown Mitigations | Software | 2020-01-13 |
| AMD EPYC Rome Still Conquering Cascadelake Even Without Mitigations | Processors | 2019-08-12 |
| Spectre Mitigation Performance Impact Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen 3700X / 3900X Against Intel | Software | 2019-07-15 |
| The Speculative Execution Impact For A 4-Core POWER9 | Processors | 2019-06-12 |
| Intel Core i5 8400 vs. i5 9400F Meltdown/Spectre/L1TF/MDS Mitigation Impact | Processors | 2019-06-05 |
| Benchmarking AMD FX vs. Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge CPUs Following Spectre, Meltdown, L1TF, Zombieload | Software | 2019-05-24 |
| A Look At The MDS Cost On Xeon, EPYC & Xeon Total Impact Of Affected CPU Vulnerabilities | Software | 2019-05-20 |
| The Performance Impact Of MDS / Zombieload Plus The Overall Cost Now Of Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS | Software | 2019-05-18 |
| Spectre/Meltdown Performance Impact Across Eight Linux Distributions | Operating Systems | 2019-03-11 |
| The Current Spectre / Meltdown Mitigation Overhead Benchmarks On Linux 5.0 | Software | 2019-03-03 |
| A Look At The Clear Linux Performance Over The Course Of 2018 | Operating Systems | 2018-12-14 |
| The Spectre/Meltdown Performance Impact On Linux 4.20, Decimating Benchmarks With New STIBP Overhead | Software | 2018-11-17 |
| Intel Core i9 9900K Spectre Mitigation Benchmarks | Software | 2018-10-31 |
| The Performance Cost Of Spectre / Meltdown / Foreshadow Mitigations On Linux 4.19 | Software | 2018-08-30 |
| The Performance Hit For A Xeon-Backed Ubuntu Linux VM With L1TF / Foreshadow Patches | Software | 2018-08-20 |
| An Early Look At The L1 Terminal Fault "L1TF" Performance Impact On Virtual Machines | Software | 2018-08-15 |
| 32-Bit Linux Prepares For Performance Hit Due To KPTI For Meltdown Mitigation | Software | 2018-07-25 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.2, TrueOS 18.03, FreeBSD 11.1, Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 & Clear Linux Tests | Operating Systems | 2018-04-21 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 Performance On Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Six Linux Distributions | Operating Systems | 2018-04-07 |
| A Look At The Relative Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation Costs On Windows vs. Linux | Operating Systems | 2018-03-23 |
| An Early Look At The Linux 4.16 Kernel Performance With AMD EPYC | Software | 2018-03-10 |
| Fresh Linux 4.16 Kernel Benchmarks With KPTI & Retpolines | Software | 2018-03-05 |
| Windows 10 WSL vs. Linux Performance For Early 2018 | Operating Systems | 2018-02-22 |
| Benchmarking Amazon EC2 Instances vs. Various Intel/AMD CPUs | Software | 2018-02-20 |
| A Look At The Plethora Of Linux 4.16 Kernel Features & Changes | Software | 2018-02-11 |
| Amazon EC2 Cloud Compute Performance: December vs. February | Operating Systems | 2018-02-10 |
| EXT4 vs. XFS vs. Btrfs vs. F2FS With Linux 4.15 Comparing KPTI/Retpoline | Storage | 2018-01-20 |
| Benchmarking Ubuntu's Low-Latency Kernel & Liquorix Post-Meltdown | Software | 2018-01-14 |
| Debian vs. Ubuntu vs. CentOS vs. openSUSE vs. Clear Linux Post-Meltdown Performance | Operating Systems | 2018-01-12 |
| KPTI + Retpoline Linux Benchmarking On Old Laptops | Software | 2018-01-11 |
| Benchmarking Linux With The Retpoline Patches For Spectre | Software | 2018-01-08 |
| DragonFlyBSD's Meltdown Fix Causing More Slowdowns Than Linux | Operating Systems | 2018-01-07 |
| Docker Performance With KPTI Page Table Isolation Patches | Operating Systems | 2018-01-06 |
| Linux KPTI Tests Using Linux 4.14 vs. 4.9 vs. 4.4 | Software | 2018-01-04 |
| NVIDIA Gaming Performance Minimally Impacted By KPTI Patches | Linux Gaming | 2018-01-04 |
Meltdown Linux & Open-Source News |
| AMD Dev Proposes Dynamic Mitigations For Linux: Run-Time Toggling Of CPU Mitigations | Linux Security | 2025-10-13 |
| Linear Address Space Separation Revised Following Prior Intel Engineer's Departure | Intel | 2025-10-07 |
| Intel Engineer Preparing To Land Change For Cleaning Up 32-bit x86 Linux Kernel Code | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-14 |
| Arm Changing Linux Default To Costly "KPTI" Mitigation For Some Newer CPUs | Arm | 2025-03-16 |
| New Linux Patch Lets You Force CPU Bugs/Mitigations Even When Not Vulnerable | Linux Security | 2024-11-19 |
| Linux 6.12-rc5 Released With Intel LAM Disabled, ASUS Lunar Lake Laptop Performance Fix | Linux Kernel | 2024-10-27 |
| Linux Adjusts "Meltdown Lite" Mitigation Handling On Newer Zen 5 CPUs | AMD | 2024-10-25 |
| RISC-V Enabling Generic CPU Vulnerabilities Reporting | RISC-V | 2024-09-08 |
| Linux 6.11-rc3 Released - Boosts Intel EMR Performance, Fixes 32-bit PTI For Meltdown | Linux Kernel | 2024-08-11 |
| Linux To Disable PCID For Intel Alder Lake & Raptor Lake Due To Issue With INVLPG | Linux Kernel | 2023-05-21 |
| Proposed Linux Patch Would Allow Disabling CPU Security Mitigations At Build-Time | Linux Security | 2023-02-03 |
| New AMD Linux Patches Prepare Secure TSC Support For SEV-SNP Guests | AMD | 2023-01-31 |
| AMD Continued Its Great Linux Embrace In 2022 With Better Launch-Day Support + Optimizations | AMD | 2022-12-31 |
| With AMD Zen 4, It's Surprisingly Not Worthwhile Disabling CPU Security Mitigations | AMD | 2022-09-30 |
| VMware: ESXi VM Performance Tanks Up To 70% Due To Intel Retbleed Mitigation | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-09 |
| ARM64 With Linux 5.20 Improves Its Meltdown Mitigation KPTI Code | Arm | 2022-07-30 |
| Researcher Talks Of Possible CPU Security Mitigations With No Performance Cost | Linux Security | 2022-02-11 |
| Vortex86 Processor Detection Landing For Linux 5.16 | Hardware | 2021-10-23 |
| Vortex86 Processors Finally Seeing Work In 2021 For Proper Handling Under Linux | Operating Systems | 2021-10-17 |
| Toggling Spectre Mitigations On Xeon Scalable Ice Lake Show Little Runtime Difference | Intel | 2021-05-23 |
| DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Released With Many Kernel Optimizations, Other Improvements | BSD | 2021-05-10 |
| VMware Engineer Revises Work On Concurrent TLB Flushes For Linux | Linux Kernel | 2021-02-23 |
| Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement | Phoronix | 2021-02-01 |
| Linux To Report MIPS Vulnerabilities But They Often Go Unreported Or Dead Vendors | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-31 |
| KVM With Linux 5.11 Brings AMD SEV-ES Host Support | Virtualization | 2020-12-20 |
| A Quick Look At The Spectre Mitigation State For AMD Zen 3 On Windows 10 | AMD | 2020-12-05 |
| Oracle Proposing Change To Linux's KPTI Meltdown Mitigation | Linux Security | 2020-11-10 |
| Linux 5.10 Xen Brings Security Updates - Includes Fixing ARM Guests With KPTI | Virtualization | 2020-10-20 |
| XCP-ng 8.2 LTS To Bring Rewritten UEFI, Core Scheduling To Fend Off Side Channel Attacks | Virtualization | 2020-10-03 |
| Google Engineer Calls For Greater Collaboration On Speculative Execution Mitigations | Linux Security | 2020-08-28 |
| Linux 5.9 Dropping Xen 32-bit PV Guest Support | Virtualization | 2020-08-14 |
| After 5 Years, FSGSBASE Support Finally Ready For Linux To Enhance AMD/Intel Performance | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-04 |
| New readfile() System Call Under Review For Reading Small~Medium Files Faster | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-04 |
| Linux Gaming, Qt Drama, New Hardware Kept Open-Source Enthusiasts Entertained This Month | Phoronix | 2020-04-30 |
| AMD Programmer Manual Update Points To PCID Support, Memory Protection Keys | AMD | 2020-04-29 |
| Intel FSGSBASE Linux Support Revived For A Performance Boost On Intel/AMD Processors | Intel | 2020-04-24 |
| Seven Changes We've Been Waiting On That You Will Not Find In Linux 5.7 | Linux Kernel | 2020-04-16 |
| Linux Developers Are Once Again Trying To Enable Intel FSGSBASE For Better Performance | Intel | 2020-04-14 |
| LVI Attack Hits Intel SGX - Defeats Existing Mitigations, More Performance Hits | Intel | 2020-03-10 |
| Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January | Phoronix | 2020-02-01 |
| Arm Has Many Changes On Tap For Linux 5.6 From Spectre/Meltdown Bits To New RNG | Arm | 2020-01-24 |
| Happy New Year + A Look Back At The Most Popular Linux Content Of 2019 | Phoronix | 2019-12-31 |
| Ubuntu 13.04 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Development Performance Comparison Without Mitigations | Ubuntu | 2019-12-29 |
| The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade | Phoronix | 2019-12-12 |
| 64-Bit ARM Updates Sent In Ahead Of The Linux 5.5 Cycle | Arm | 2019-11-24 |
| Linux 5.4 Officially Deprecates Xen 32-bit PV Guest Support | Virtualization | 2019-10-26 |
| AMD Dominated Q3 In Wooing Over Linux / Open-Source Fans | Phoronix | 2019-10-03 |
| It Turns Out CPU Speculative Execution Can Be Useful For Random Entropy / RNG | Hardware | 2019-09-29 |
| Intel Resurrecting FSGSBASE Support For Linux To Help With Performance | Intel | 2019-09-12 |
| VMware Is Exploring Reducing Meltdown/PTI Overhead With Deferred Flushes | Linux Kernel | 2019-08-25 |
| Parallel CPU Microcode Updates Being Restored To Help Large Core Count Servers | Hardware | 2019-08-23 |
| Debian's DebConf 19 Slides & Video Presentations | Debian | 2019-08-04 |
| AMD Dominated The Conversation Among Linux/Open-Source Fans In July | Phoronix | 2019-08-01 |
| Linux's 32-Bit Kernel Has Been Buggy Since Being Mitigated For Meltdown | Linux Kernel | 2019-07-28 |
| Linux Kernel Looks To Remove 32-bit Xen PV Guest Support | Virtualization | 2019-07-17 |
| Radeon Graphics, Zombieload & Kernel Changes Intrigued Open-Source Fans In H1-2019 | Phoronix | 2019-07-09 |
| Linux's Performance-Boosting FSGSBASE Support Dropped For Now Over Serious Bugs | Hardware | 2019-07-05 |
| Ubuntu Drama, Clear Linux Speed & WSL2 Sparked Lots Of Interest In June | Phoronix | 2019-07-01 |
| A Quick Look At The Debian 10.0 Buster vs. Debian 9.9 Performance | Debian | 2019-06-17 |
| Linux 5.3 Could Finally See FSGSBASE - Performance Improvements Back To Ivybridge | Intel | 2019-06-17 |
| FreeBSD Had A Very Busy Q1-2019 As It Approaches Its 26th Birthday | BSD | 2019-06-04 |
| Zombieload, RHEL 8.0, Linux 5.2 & GCC Happenings Dominated May | Free Software | 2019-05-31 |
| Linux Fix Pending For Borked Hibernation After Disabling Hyper Threading | Linux Kernel | 2019-05-30 |
| ZombieLoad Mitigation Costs For Intel Haswell Xeon, Plus Overall Mitigation Impact | Linux Security | 2019-05-23 |
| OpenSUSE Adds Option To Installer For Toggling Performance-Hitting CPU Mitigations | SUSE | 2019-05-22 |
| Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS Mitigation Costs On An Intel Dual Core + HT Laptop | Hardware | 2019-05-21 |
| Gaming Performance Only Faintly Touched By MDS / Zombie Load Mitigations | Linux Gaming | 2019-05-17 |
| Intel Has Been Recently Ramping Up Their FreeBSD Support | Intel | 2019-05-16 |
| MDS / Zombieload Mitigations Come At A Real Cost, Even If Keeping Hyper Threading On | Linux Security | 2019-05-16 |
| The BSDs Get Promptly Mitigated For The MDS Side-Channel Vulnerabilities | BSD | 2019-05-15 |
| ARM64 To Finally Broadcast Its Spectre State Via Sysfs, Prep For Neoverse & SVE2 | Arm | 2019-05-08 |
| Spectre/Meltdown Mitigations Can Now Be Toggled With Convenient "mitigations=" Option | Linux Security | 2019-05-06 |
| Revised Patches Out For New Kernel "mitigations=" Option For Toggling Spectre/Meltdown | Linux Security | 2019-04-16 |
| OpenSUSE's Spectre Mitigation Approach Is One Of The Reasons For Its Slower Performance | SUSE | 2019-04-14 |
| Improved Spectre/Meltdown Switches Might Finally Come To The Linux Kernel | Linux Security | 2019-04-06 |
| Stadia, Web Browsers, GNOME 3.32 & Jetson Nano Dominated Linux Interest In March | Phoronix | 2019-04-01 |
| NVMe VFIO Mediated Device Support Being Hacked On For Lower Latency Storage In VMs | Virtualization | 2019-03-22 |
| Linux 5.1 Getting A Minor Spectre V2 Retpolines Optimization For Select Instances | Linux Security | 2019-03-08 |
| Intel CPUs Reportedly Vulnerable To New "SPOILER" Speculative Attack | Linux Security | 2019-03-05 |
| Linux 5.1 Landing Feature For Reducing Scope Of Spectre V4 Speculation Protection | Linux Kernel | 2019-03-05 |
| Microsoft Finally Enables Retpolines For Windows 10 Version 1809, Windows Server 2019 | Microsoft | 2019-03-01 |
| Looking At Why Linux 5.0 Is Running Slower For Apache & PostgreSQL On Some Systems | Linux Kernel | 2019-02-27 |
| Benchmarking The Current Spectre + Meltdown Performance Overhead For 10 GbE Networking | Linux Security | 2019-01-26 |
| From The Linux Perspective: What I Am Most Looking Forward To In 2019 | Linux Kernel | 2019-01-02 |
| That's A Wrap For 2018 With 3,693 News Articles, 314 Linux Hardware Reviews/Benchmarks | Phoronix | 2018-12-31 |
| The Linux Kernel In 2018 Summed Up: Spectre/Meltdown, CoC, Speck Fears, New Features | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-31 |
| OPTPOLINES - Formerly Relpolines, Lower Overhead To Retpolines For Spectre Mitigation | Linux Security | 2018-12-31 |
| OpenBSD Security, DragonFly + Threadripper, TrueOS Topped Out BSD News This Year | BSD | 2018-12-30 |
| NVIDIA's 2018 Linux Highlights Included Some Open-Source Milestones, But Not Many | NVIDIA | 2018-12-30 |
| Ubuntu Had A Very Busy 2018 But Not Everything Turned Out As Planned | Ubuntu | 2018-12-30 |
| Linux CoC, Debian, Speck & Kernel Happenings Rounded Out Q4-2018 | Free Software | 2018-12-28 |
| The Most Popular AMD/Radeon Linux News Of 2018 | AMD | 2018-12-26 |
| The Most Popular Intel Linux News & Reviews Of 2018 | Intel | 2018-12-25 |
| Linux DMA Mapping Updates Help Recover Losses Caused By Spectre V2 Retpolines | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-21 |
| Linux 4.14 vs. 4.20 Performance Benchmarks - The Kernel Speed Difference For 2018 | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-18 |
| Linux Networking Improvements To Mitigate Retpoline Overhead Ready For 4.21 Kernel | Linux Networking | 2018-12-17 |
| Reworked STIBP Code Lands In Linux 4.20 To Fix The Performance | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-01 |
| Linux's Slowdown, Raptor's Talos II, Clear Linux & Other Dominating Topics This Month | Phoronix | 2018-11-30 |
| Intel Cascade Lake Target Added To LLVM / Clang Compiler | LLVM | 2018-11-27 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.5 Development Opens Up | BSD | 2018-11-23 |
| Linus Torvalds Comments On STIBP & He's Not Happy - STIBP Default Will End Up Changing | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-19 |
| Linux Gaming Performance Can Be Impaired By STIBP, But Hope May Be On The Horizon | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-18 |
| Coreboot Support Taking Shape For Intel Icelake | Coreboot | 2018-11-17 |
| University Researchers Publish Paper On GPU Side-Channel Attacks | Linux Security | 2018-11-15 |
| PortSmash: A New Side-Channel Vulnerability Affecting SMT/HT Processors (CVE-2018-5407) | Linux Security | 2018-11-02 |
| OpenBSD 6.4 Released - Disables SMT/HT By Default, Updates Radeon DRM | BSD | 2018-10-18 |
| Spectre V2 "Lite" App-To-App Protection Mode Readying For The Linux Kernel | Linux Security | 2018-10-17 |
| Q3 Was Exciting For Linux Enthusiasts With Threadripper, Mesa, Steam Play & Kernel Drama | Phoronix | 2018-09-28 |
| Linux Readying Spectre V2 Userspace-Userspace Protection | Linux Security | 2018-09-26 |
| Linux 4.19 Is Looking Good So Far, At Least On Intel Xeons | Hardware | 2018-09-10 |
| Another Minor Optimization Queued For Systems Mitigated Against Spectre / Meltdown | Linux Kernel | 2018-09-08 |
| A Batch Of x86 Speculation Fixes Headed To The Linux 4.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-09-02 |
| Threadripper 2, Spectre, Steam Play / Proton & Linux 4.19 Made August Super Exciting | Phoronix | 2018-08-31 |
| 32-bit PTI For Mitigating Meltdown Is Causing Problems With Early Linux 4.19 Builds | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-30 |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 Officially Released | Oracle | 2018-08-28 |
| A Global Switch To Kill Linux's CPU Spectre/Meltdown Workarounds? | Linux Security | 2018-08-25 |
| L1TF / Foreshadow Mitigations Land In Linux 4.18 / 4.17 / 4.14 / 4.9 / 4.4 Kernel Update | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-16 |
| L1 Terminal Fault - The Latest Speculative Execution Side Channel Attack | Hardware | 2018-08-14 |
| A Lot Of Spectre Changes Land In The Linux 4.19 Git Tree, Possible Performance Impact | Linux Security | 2018-08-14 |
| 100+ Benchmarks Of Various High-End Intel / AMD Desktop CPUs On Linux 4.18 | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-03 |
| A Look At The Clear Linux Performance For July 2018 | Clear Linux | 2018-08-03 |
| There Are A Ton Of New Features/Improvements Heading Towards Linux 4.19 | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-26 |
| NetBSD 8.0 Officially Released With USB3 Support, Security Improvements & UEFI | BSD | 2018-07-21 |
| NetBSD 8.0 Ready For Release With Spectre/Meltdown Fix, Initial USB 3.0 Support | BSD | 2018-07-20 |
| Meltdown Protection For x86 32-bit Aligned For The Linux 4.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-20 |
| PTI Support To Address Meltdown Nearing The Finish Line For x86 32-bit Linux | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-18 |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 Public Beta Updated With KPTI For Addressing Meltdown | Oracle | 2018-07-17 |
| Xen Hypervisor 4.11 Released With Many Core Improvements | Virtualization | 2018-07-10 |
| CentOS 6.10 Released, Scientific Linux 6.10 Coming Next Week | Red Hat | 2018-07-06 |
| NetBSD 8.0 RC2 Released With Eager FPU Security Fix, Other Fixes | BSD | 2018-07-02 |
| FreeBSD 11.2 Ready For Release With Spectre Mitigation, Various Enhancements | BSD | 2018-06-27 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Released With Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation | Red Hat | 2018-06-20 |
| A Complete Look At Spectre V1/V2/V4 & Meltdown | Linux Security | 2018-06-17 |
| DragonFlyBSD Gets Better Hardened Against CPU Speculative Execution Bugs | BSD | 2018-06-12 |
| Linux 4.18 Gets AMD Patches For Speculative Store Bypass / Spectre V4 | AMD | 2018-06-10 |
| FreeBSD 11.2-RC2 Ships This Weekend With Various Fixes | BSD | 2018-06-09 |
| FreeBSD 11.2 RC1 Brings WoL Support To Newer Intel Systems, Other Fixes | BSD | 2018-06-02 |
| FreeBSD 11.2 Beta 3 Brings LLVM Updates, Various Fixes | BSD | 2018-05-26 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.2.1 Released | BSD | 2018-05-23 |
| Spectre V2 & Meltdown Linux Fixes Might Get Disabled For Atom N270 & Other In-Order CPUs | Linux Security | 2018-05-23 |
| Linux 4.17 Gets More Spectre V1 Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2018-05-13 |
| FreeBSD 11.2 Beta Now Available For Testing | BSD | 2018-05-12 |
| Ubuntu Developers Once Again Debate Dropping i386 Images, Then Discontinuing i386 Port | Ubuntu | 2018-05-10 |
| DragonFlyBSD Finishes Up Spectre Mitigation, Fix For Mysterious CVE-2018-8897 | Linux Security | 2018-05-08 |
| Linux 4.17, Ryzen, Valve & Apple Looking For Kernel Devs Topped April | Phoronix | 2018-05-01 |
| OpenIndiana Hipster 2018.04, Drops GNOME 2 For MATE + Adds KPTI For Meltdown | Oracle | 2018-04-28 |
| QEMU 2.12 Released With RISC-V, Spectre/Meltdown & Intel vGPU Action | Virtualization | 2018-04-25 |
| Celebrating 25 Years Of Work, NetBSD 8.0 RC1 Officially Released With USB3 & UEFI | BSD | 2018-04-25 |
| NetBSD 8.0 RC1 Available, Bringing Initial USB 3.0 Support & Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation | BSD | 2018-04-20 |
| Meltdown/PTI Mitigation Impact On BSDs vs. Linux | BSD | 2018-04-18 |
