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		dataflow on Nov 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel disables Hardware Lock Elision on all curren... Uh, so there's absolutely no way to avoid disabling HLE (unless you block microcode updates altogether)? Can people who paid extra for a computer whose CPU has HLE get a refund?

age_bronze on Nov 14, 2019 [–]

You can avoid it. They didn't disable it, but implemented MSR which disables it. Don't configure this MSR to disable HLE and you're good.

dataflow on Nov 14, 2019 | [–]

But it says "Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) is unconditionally disabled by the new microcode"?

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