Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2018 23:55:02 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 01/24] x86/speculation: Update the TIF_SSBD comment |
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:48:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Btw, I really do not like the app2app wording. I'd rather go for usr2usr, > > but that's kinda horrible as well. But then, all of this is horrible. > > > > Any better ideas? > > It needs to have "task isolation" in there somewhere as this is what it > does, practically. But it needs to be more precise as in "isolates the > tasks from influence due to shared hardware." :)
Not only shared hardware. IBPB is about tasks running back to back on the same CPU.
Thanks,
tglx
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