On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 20:25:42 -1000, david wrote: >4.8 doesn't have the Spectre/Meltdown patches. 4.16 does. So I blame >the Spectre/Meltdown patches. I already pointed tis out by an earlier mail: "I didn't test, if the page table isolation stuff has got impact on real-time performance, maybe you want to disable it, if so add 'nopti': [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep -A3 '\^nopti' /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg MENU LABEL Arch Linux threadirqs ^nopti LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro threadirqs nopti INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux.img" - https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-user/2018-July/110576.html By the kernel package's changelog you could see if 'nopti' is available. For older official Ubuntu kernels is was 'nokaiser', but for all current official Ubuntu kernels it is 'nopti'. The output of ls -hAl /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/; cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* shows if PTI mitigation is enabled at all. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user