i wanted to give give a look at if there was any noticeable performance difference in disabling mitigations
currently in /etc/default/grub lines 6+7 read as
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet loglevel=3 nowatchdog nvme_load=YES”
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff”
would changing line 6 to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash mitigations=off”
correctly disable mitigations?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance#Turn_off_CPU_exploit_mitigations
Warning: Do not apply this setting without considering the vulnerabilities it opens up. See this and this for more information.
Turning off CPU exploit mitigations may improve performance. Use below kernel parameter to disable them all:
mitigations=off
You would need to regenerate the grub.cfg then it presumably should work
I don’t think you actually need to remove anything from that line. Just adding mitigations=off should do.
great thank you. gave it a go and well…not significant enough of a boost i’d say to be worth the risk, regardless of how minor of a risk it is.
Right. Opening up the security of the system for perhaps a couple of percentage increase in performance is not worth it.
Here is a video from CTT confirming the same:
yeah it’s like a fun thing to just give a go but hardly seems worth it outside over obsessing on benchmarks that don’t really matter for practicality. kind of how i’ve been feeling about overclocking. a little boost is nice but at a certain point it feels like the stability trade offs aren’t worth the bigger leaps you can push for.
last test from phoronix about ( one year ago )