I won't argue he's wrong, but I think as fast as CPUs change you'd have to have across the board reductions in workload capacity by a significant number (ie, the 30% touted initially) to be able to claim harm and justify a recall.
So far what I've read is that performance in some storage applications has taken a small hit, but generally it's not a meaningful hit overall in CPU performance.
And even if you could prove a performance hit, how reliable are the numbers? Workloads vary a lot. And if you're not op
Datacenters which already patched are apparently getting a performance hit in the high two-digits. Epic, for example, has people complaining [epicgames.com] because users cannot connect to game servers after the patch doubled servers CPU load.
It's hard to understand if this is Epic finding a convenient whipping boy for their problems or an actual problem associated with the patch. There's always complaining about gaming server performance, outages, etc, so it's not like they couldn't have other problems and that this is just being used as an excuse.
"I want repaired processors for free" (Score:5, Insightful)
You know, he's not wrong. This is, in impact, way bigger than Intel's FDIV fiasco and that ended up in recalls.
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I won't argue he's wrong, but I think as fast as CPUs change you'd have to have across the board reductions in workload capacity by a significant number (ie, the 30% touted initially) to be able to claim harm and justify a recall.
So far what I've read is that performance in some storage applications has taken a small hit, but generally it's not a meaningful hit overall in CPU performance.
And even if you could prove a performance hit, how reliable are the numbers? Workloads vary a lot. And if you're not op
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Datacenters which already patched are apparently getting a performance hit in the high two-digits. Epic, for example, has people complaining [epicgames.com] because users cannot connect to game servers after the patch doubled servers CPU load.
Re:"I want repaired processors for free" (Score:3)
It's hard to understand if this is Epic finding a convenient whipping boy for their problems or an actual problem associated with the patch. There's always complaining about gaming server performance, outages, etc, so it's not like they couldn't have other problems and that this is just being used as an excuse.
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Well, it is likely. Still, that graph is horrible to look at.
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the posted CPU utilization graphs look pretty obvious :/
I think they were on the edge and this shoved them over, but now they need to spin up more servers and deal with that, plus killed margin.