KPTI/KAISER Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
This overhead can be reduced by A) pcid, fully available in Linux 4.14, and B) Huge pages. - **Cache access pattern**: the overheads are exacerbated by certain access patterns that switch from caching well to caching a little less well. This can turn a 1% overhead (syscall cycles alone) into a 7% overhead. In more detail: ## 1.
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