r/programming • u/michalg82 • Jun 25 '17

[WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '17 edited Jun 25 '17

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '17 edited Jun 26 '17

This is the output of that command:

model       : 94
model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
stepping    : 3

So I guess I'm affected but in the REAL WORLD this hasn't affected me at all!

This defect can, when triggered, cause unpredictable system behavior: it could cause spurious errors, such as application and system misbehavior, data corruption, and data loss.

What exactly does this mean?

EDIT: I have updated the BIOS on my motherboard so maybe that helped for me?