Reply to post: Re: Hard as I try...

Boffins offer to make speculative execution great again with Spectre-Meltdown CPU fix

Nick Ryan Silver badge

Re: Hard as I try...

I'm not up with the latest features of the latest x86 CPUs but common sense would indicate that there should be instructions that will flush the hardware executable environment, including the pipeline and speculative caches.

In this case the task/process manager of the operating system could ensure that such flushes are performed however the more rapidly that processes are switched between (to give the illusion of parallel execution) the more such a change would affect the performance of the system.

Any thorough solution is likely to require both hardware and software changes, with a certain level of fallback capability within the hardware to cover non-supporting operating systems.

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon