Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability

Lee Revell
2005-05-14T17:56:39Z

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 18:44 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> then JACK is terminally broken if it doesn't have a fallback for non-
> rdtsc cpus.

It does have a fallback, but the selection is done at compile time. It
uses rdtsc for all x86 CPUs except pre-i586 SMP systems.

Maybe we should check at runtime, but this has always worked.

Lee