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2021-06-29 18:43
A year later, in 2014, Intel was forced to turn TSX off in Haswell and selected Broadwell chips after an erratum was disclosed allowing for "Unpredictable system behaviour" - exactly the opposite of what you want in your database-centric server system. It would now appear that Intel plans to throw in the towel, as brought to our attention in a scan of the latest changes to the Linux kernel by Phoronix: Intel has released a microcode update which disables TSX on processors ranging from the Broadwell successor Skylake through to Coffee Lake parts released starting in 2017.