Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability

Alan Cox
2005-05-15T20:45:04Z

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