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Subject: Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sul, 2005-05-15 at 08:30, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> stop entirely.... (and that is also happening more and more and linux is
> getting more agressive idle support (eg no timer tick and such patches)
> which will trigger bios thresholds for this even more too.

Cyrix did TSC stop on halt a long long time ago, back when it was worth
the power difference.

Alan

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