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Old 20th June 2018
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Default OpenBSD disables Intel’s hyper-threading

OpenBSD has disabled Intel’s hyper-threading technology, citing security concerns.

As detailed in this post, OpenBSD maintainer Mark Kettenis wrote that “SMT (Simultanious Multi Threading) implementations typically share TLBs and L1 caches between threads.”

--The Register, 20 June 2018

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06...yperthreading/
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