On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 06:26:58AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote: > > I think you can safely > > ignore the rest of it if you are otherwise occupied. Even if v2.19 ships > > without some mitigation, I don't know that it's all that big a deal, > > given the numbers I generated (which for some reason are less dramatic > > than Stolee's). > My numbers may be more dramatic because my Linux environment is a virtual > machine. If you have a chance, can you run p0001 on my patch (compared to 2.19-rc0, or to both v2.18 and v2.19-rc0)? It would be nice to double check that it really is fixing the problem you saw. -Peff