[LAU] performance problems after kernel/microcode update ?

[Ralf Mardorf]

PS:

The microcode has not that much impact regarding Spectre mitigation, as I thought.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep 'no micro' /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg -A4
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt Securityink no micro
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-securityink
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux-rt-securityink.img

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -l /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 15 02:28 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 15 02:28 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 15 02:28 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 15 02:28 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 15 02:28 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cat  /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*
Mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Mitigation: PTI
Vulnerable
Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization
Mitigation: Full generic retpoline

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[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep 'Securityink nopt^i' /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg -A4
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt Securityink nopt^i
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-securityink
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro nopti
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-rt-securityink.img

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -l /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 15 02:33 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 15 02:33 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 15 02:33 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 15 02:33 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 15 02:33 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cat  /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*
Mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Vulnerable
Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization
Mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB, IBRS_FW