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Uh, so there's absolutely no way to avoid disabling HLE (unless you block microcode updates altogether)? Can people who paid extra for a computer whose CPU has HLE get a refund?

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You can avoid it. They didn't disable it, but implemented MSR which disables it. Don't configure this MSR to disable HLE and you're good.

But it says "Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) is unconditionally disabled by the new microcode"?

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