[Cerowrt-devel] meltdown update for bufferbloat.net

Joel Wirāmu Pauling joel at aenertia.net
Thu Jan 11 21:18:30 EST 2018


I am planing on running thunderbolt3 network flent RRUL test pre and post
KPTI patch set.

On 12 January 2018 at 15:09, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have rebooted all 7 of the bufferbloat.net servers on linode into
> their post-meltdown-fix 4.14.12 kernel. I am pretty sure the
> underlying substrates are migrated also.
> (https://blog.linode.com/2018/01/03/cpu-vulnerabilities-meltdown-spectre/
> )
>
> I'd be interested in higher speed rrul/etc tests against
> flent-fremont, etc, to see if anything changed. For all i know some
> things changed for the better, there were a few places where linode
> told me had gone from a 250Mbit to 1gbit limit.
>
> No fixes for spectre are available as yet, and of course the meltdown
> fixes being so new will have their own problems.
>
> Please let me know if i broke anything else. I'd never rebooted
> *everything* before.
>
> I still have a ton of other boxes to fix behind the now disabled vpn,
> made more difficult by my habit of hacking on kernels of various
> ages... I only have a couple OOO arms....
>
> I tend to think that rerolling crypto keys (SSL and ssh) would be prudent.
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