Why there is performance degradation on fresh installation of RHEL7.7 and later on Intel Cascade Lake CPU?
Issue
- System performance is affected by
spectre_v2=retpolinekernel parameter toIntel Cascade Lake systems.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 and Later.
- Intel Cascade Lake CPU.
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