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Linux Preps New AMD ERAPS Feature With EPYC Turin To Benefit Performance


Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week and now queued already via tip/tip.git's 'x86/bugs' Git branch is support for a new AMD CPU feature we haven't heard about until now..

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week and now queued already via tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch is support for a new AMD CPU feature we haven't heard about until now... ERAPS, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security. AMD ERAPS aims to help recover some of the performance of security mitigations introduced following the Spectre class vulnerabilities over the past several years. I'll be checking out this new AMD ERAPS enablement for the Linux kernel to see if it provides any measurable benefit to the performance for the new EPYC 9005 series server processors.

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