Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 15 May 2005 22:48:27 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 21:41 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > 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.
With linux going to ACPI C2 mode more... tsc is defined to halt in C2...
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