Absolutely no interest at all. Not interested in the source code complexity (it is worse than you think), nor do we believe people's ability to make correct decisions in regards to complicated security issues.
dhcpd, you say... Elias Carter <edcar...@ualberta.ca> wrote: > Would there be any interest in having a sysctl to enable/disable > meltdown and mds mitigations? > I was poking around 'sys/arch/amd64/amd64/cpu.c' and it appears that > these mitigations are currently hardcoded. > > The benefit of having these sysctl's is that they would allow users to > disable the mitigations for a tradeoff in performance. For example, I > have an OpenBSD router only running dhcpd and pf which is struggling > to keep up with a gigabit connection. Given that the system is only > doing routing, I would assume it would be relatively low risk to > disable the mitigations to get better performance. > > Thoughts? > Elias >
