[dpdk-dev] RFC - remove Transactional Memory support?

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Nov 13 18:49:44 CET 2019

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In response to the new TSX Async Abort vulnerability (TAA); perhaps it would be best to 
remove the limited Transactional Memory support in rte_hash.

The feature is not widely used, a potential security soft spot and only supported
on Intel (and broken by design there).

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a7a248c593e4

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