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The context switching thing is the biggest.

If you have something that's just making a huge number of syscall's in a tight loop the mitigations absolutely dumpster performance.

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It can be mitigated somewhat if you have pcid enabled for the processors, so that a flush can be process specific instead of cpu-wide. There’s still a performance hit of course but you’re going to lose some locality with a context switch anyway.

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