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Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

Posted Jun 27, 2017 9:51 UTC (Tue) by edeloget (subscriber, #88392)
In reply to: Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by antiphase
Parent article: Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

Considering that abnormal behaviors are likely to be exploited by malicious users (at least to perform some kind of DOS attack), and considering that many servers out there feature these processors, I would not call that "sensationalism".

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Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

Posted Jun 27, 2017 12:11 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Skylake and Kaby Lake are too new to appear in any but very expensive server-class processors until very recently (the last few months). v4 and even v3 (Broadwell and older) are still on sale in fairly expensive servers. Server users are fairly conservative, often because of, well, bugs like this...


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