A more technical writeup on what can be done to address #Meltdown and #Spectre in future CPU designs. If there's interest, I can write a longer version with graphics and so on:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/addressing-meltdown-spectre-future-silicon-jon-masters/ …
Disabling speculative reads from an address computed with a dependency on a speculative load is a big hammer that should fix it, but something lighter is needed to meet most users' performance requirements. (I'd be happy using an option to disable them, tho.)
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There should be a solution based on special handling of speculative loads that would cause cache miss (not fetching speculatively, but also hiding whether they did).
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