> So I think people have blown those SSL timing attacks _way_ out of > proportion, just because it sounds technical and cool. > > Besides, most of the time you can disable HT in the BIOS, which is better > anyway if you don't want it. Agreed - but the SSL thing is an irrelevance. The main reason for disabling HT (especially on a single core CPU) is because a lot of workloads run faster with HT *off*. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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