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susan b buffering
Nov 14, 2016

the versions he's testing are like 3 updates apart so it's entirely possible that the regression isn't even due to 11.2.2, if it exists at all.

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movax
Aug 30, 2008

I think more people would be screaming if it’s that bad

wouldn’t geekbench’s database be the best place to check?

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



movax posted:

I think more people would be screaming if it’s that bad

wouldn’t geekbench’s database be the best place to check?

a cursory glance of recent results bounces between slightly slower and drastically, so i wonder about what background processing might be happening after an update

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/6311128
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/6311121
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/6311084
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/6311039

and then theres ones from just before that are terrible so:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/6007671

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

Updates often trigger a re-index which will jam up a core for a while (almost like that's 50% of your phones processing power 🤔)

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop

Stereotype posted:

A lot of those look pretty "daily use" to me. JPEG, HTML5 parsing, PDF rendering, all down like 40%.

seems like any camera accelerator worth a poo poo would have hardware jpeg encoding, that shouldn't drop off at all due to cpu performance. at least every camera accelerator i have tested has had it, and i have worked on 3 of them.

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
genius yospos solution to avoiding the spectre bug is to get a phone with an operating system that will never get updated against the spectre bug

30 TO 50 FERAL HOG
Mar 2, 2005



Number19
May 14, 2003

HOCKEY OWNS
FUCK YEAH


cross-postin:

James Baud posted:

In Intel news, there's also this:

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-security-issue-update-addressing-reboot-issues/ posted:

We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates. Specifically, these systems are running Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs for both client and data center. We are working quickly with these customers to understand, diagnose and address this reboot issue. If this requires a revised firmware update from Intel, we will distribute that update through the normal channels. We are also working directly with data center customers to discuss the issue.

End-users should continue to apply updates recommended by their system and operating system providers.
So, they botched the microcode update that resolves one of the Spectre variants... but how badly are we talking here?

Number19
May 14, 2003

HOCKEY OWNS
FUCK YEAH


also, intel AMT is so much garbage:

https://twitter.com/FSecure/status/951738561535119360

just turn that poo poo off, i bet this isn't even close to the last security hole in it

My Linux Rig
Mar 27, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 6 years!
did the iOS update, have noticed literally no difference

Avenging Dentist
Oct 1, 2005

oh my god is that a circular saw that does not go in my mouth aaaaagh
yes, 11.2.2 has the patch

haven’t noticed any perf issues even on my lovely old ipad

Themage
Jul 21, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
a 50% loss still makes it way beyond any anroid(lol)

Hugh G. Rectum
Mar 1, 2011

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

The sample size is 1 so maybe reserve judgement for a little bit

i tried geekbench 3 on my iphone 7 and it's identical to the original performance of 10.0. i think something else is going on with that idiots phone, or maybe it only affects older iphones. it probably thermal throttled after sitting there updating to the new ios for 20 minutes and then he immediately ran the benchmark, or it was doing some background post-update housekeeping tasks while it was running. whatever it is, that article is fud.



:toot:

Hugh G. Rectum fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Jan 16, 2018

JawnV6
Jul 4, 2004

So hot ...
https://twitter.com/johnregehr/status/953362475159732224

Xarn
Jun 26, 2015
Millcpu.txt

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

BULLSHIT.

Have you _looked_ at the patches you are talking about? You should
have - several of them bear your name.

The patches do things like add the garbage MSR writes to the kernel
entry/exit points. That's insane. That says "we're trying to protect
the kernel". We already have retpoline there, with less overhead.

So somebody isn't telling the truth here. Somebody is pushing complete
garbage for unclear reasons. Sorry for having to point that out.

If this was about flushing the BTB at actual context switches between
different users, I'd believe you. But that's not at all what the
patches do.

As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE.

They do literally insane things. They do things that do not make
sense. That makes all your arguments questionable and suspicious. The
patches do things that are not sane.

WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?

And that's actually ignoring the much _worse_ issue, namely that the
whole hardware interface is literally mis-designed by morons.

30 TO 50 FERAL HOG
Mar 2, 2005



Breakfast All Day posted:

BULLSHIT.

Have you _looked_ at the patches you are talking about? You should
have - several of them bear your name.

The patches do things like add the garbage MSR writes to the kernel
entry/exit points. That's insane. That says "we're trying to protect
the kernel". We already have retpoline there, with less overhead.

So somebody isn't telling the truth here. Somebody is pushing complete
garbage for unclear reasons. Sorry for having to point that out.

If this was about flushing the BTB at actual context switches between
different users, I'd believe you. But that's not at all what the
patches do.

As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE.

They do literally insane things. They do things that do not make
sense. That makes all your arguments questionable and suspicious. The
patches do things that are not sane.

WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?

And that's actually ignoring the much _worse_ issue, namely that the
whole hardware interface is literally mis-designed by morons.

source your quotes

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

NEED MORE MILK posted:

source your quotes

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/21/192

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

i wonder what linus’s conversations with intel have been like

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



hobbesmaster posted:

i wonder what linus’s conversations with intel have been like

Probably very heated. Oh to be a fly on the wall in Linus Torvald's office when the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were revealed.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

linus posted:

That's part of the big problem here. The speculation control cpuid
stuff shows that Intel actually seems to plan on doing the right thing
for meltdown (the main question being _when_). Which is not a huge
surprise, since it should be easy to fix, and it's a really honking
big hole to drive through. Not doing the right thing for meltdown
would be completely unacceptable.

So the IBRS garbage implies that Intel is _not_ planning on doing the
right thing for the indirect branch speculation.

Honestly, that's completely unacceptable too.

> So the part is I think is odd is the IBRS_ALL feature, where a future
> CPU will advertise "I am able to be not broken" and then you have to
> set the IBRS bit once at boot time to *ask* it not to be broken. That
> part is weird, because it ought to have been treated like the RDCL_NO
> bit — just "you don't have to worry any more, it got better".

It's not "weird" at all. It's very much part of the whole "this is
complete garbage" issue.

The whole IBRS_ALL feature to me very clearly says "Intel is not
serious about this, we'll have a ugly hack that will be so expensive
that we don't want to enable it by default, because that would look
bad in benchmarks".

So instead they try to push the garbage down to us. And they are doing
it entirely wrong, even from a technical standpoint.

I'm sure there is some lawyer there who says "we'll have to go through
motions to protect against a lawsuit". But legal reasons do not make
for good technology, or good patches that I should apply.
lol if intel refuses to ever patch spectre

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Too much effort, they're deprecated CPUs anyways, and we can now hold a gun to people's heads about security and jack the price of our current gen which is compatible with our patches, and next gen procs through the roof!

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
*looks at amd*

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

orange juche posted:

Too much effort, they're deprecated CPUs anyways, and we can now hold a gun to people's heads about security and jack the price of our current gen which is compatible with our patches, and next gen procs through the roof!


atomicthumbs posted:

*looks at amd*

two potentially valid business strategies right there

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016

orange juche posted:

Probably very heated. Oh to be a fly on the wall in Linus Torvald's office when the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were revealed.

hitler_downfall_bunker_rant.wmv

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Malloc Voidstar posted:

lol if intel refuses to ever patch spectre

spectre doesn’t seem like a very practical attack at the moment at least

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

hitler_downfall_bunker_rant.wmv

tbf from the quotes i've seen in the past that strikes me as a pretty regular phenomenon with ol' linus

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
actually, wait. it's not quite downfall_rant.wmv




because linus wouldn't ask people to leave the room :xd:

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

intel is going to make the spectre fix xeon only like every other basic and sane feature over the past decade

Origin
Feb 15, 2006

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

actually, wait. it's not quite downfall_rant.wmv




because linus wouldn't ask people to leave the room :xd:

hey nvidia, you got outclassed in being egregious shitheads today! go get yourself an ice cream cone!

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
the only reasonable fix for these defects is to recall every affected processor and provide replacements for no cost

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

Stymie posted:

the only reasonable fix for these defects is to recall every affected processor and provide replacements for no cost

for meltdown, maybe. meltdown was kind of an obvious fuckup that intel really, really, really should not have made. that one is on them.

spectre is a much more subtle problem that affects everyone industry-wide

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
death to the Thinking Machines

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?
dude Thinking Machines died in 1994 and was bought by Sun

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
oh lol I didn't know that was a real thing. I was talking dune

Linguica
Jul 13, 2000
You're already dead

My Linode VPSes got patched for Meltdown or whatever and performance seems identical but for some reason it's now reporting way more I/O

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


my motherboard vendor only has a beta bios patch up

i try to avoid things with "beta bios" in them

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



HAIL eSATA-n posted:

my motherboard vendor only has a beta bios patch up

i try to avoid things with "beta bios" in them

how to brick your machine in four clicks or less!

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Linguica posted:

My Linode VPSes got patched for Meltdown or whatever and performance seems identical but for some reason it's now reporting way more I/O



Same here,



I love the weird artifacts on IPv6 monitoring:

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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

Linguica posted:

My Linode VPSes got patched for Meltdown or whatever and performance seems identical but for some reason it's now reporting way more I/O



hrm, wonder if this is just an artifact of the trampoline mapping in of the kernel not being excluded from io (likely happening on a slightly different path than usual) despite already existing in (unmapped) physical memory? can't think why there would be additional actual blocks io'ed

e: otoh my very lightly, but consistently, loaded virtual machine has other io weirdness which is partially consistent with yours, so there may be something else going on:


the start of the calm period also coincides with a reboot, so i wonder if it isn't just some linode/kernel change

Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Jan 23, 2018

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