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SubjectRe: [patch 01/24] x86/speculation: Update the TIF_SSBD comment
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On 11/21/2018 2:53 PM, 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." :)
>

part of the problem is that "sharing" has multiple dimensions: time and space (e.g. hyperthreading)
which makes it hard to find a nice term for it other than describing who attacks whom

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