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nreece on April 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Make Linux Fast Again (2019)

Will these parameters work on a VM as well, or just a bare-metal host?

Edit: looks like "performance gained by disabling workarounds for the mostly Intel CPU security flaws are not all that impressive in all workloads": https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(...

hanikesn on April 10, 2020 [–]

I think I/O heavy benchmarks would be much more useful as syscalls take the heaviest hit from the mitigations.

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