Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 01/24] x86/speculation: Update the TIF_SSBD comment | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2018 14:55:20 -0800 |
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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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