From: Rao Shoaib <rao.sho...@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 19:35:46 -0800
> I do not expect any measurable overhead as modern CPU's use > pre-fetching and multiple parallel execution engines. Please see Spectre and retpolines, all of this parallel execution and prefetching is essentially disabled to address those vulnerabilities and side-channel exploits. Indirect calls are terrible and we are now looking at ways in which we can remove them from as many parts of the networking as possible.
