Spectre and Meltdown vs. Real-Time - Measuring Mitigation Costs

Explore the impact of hardware vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown on real-time systems in this 42-minute conference talk. Delve into the costs and consequences of implementing countermeasures for these vulnerabilities in embedded real-time environments. Learn about the benchmarks and microbenchmarks used to quantify the effects on execution time, latency, and determinism in real-time operating systems such as the Preempt-RT patch for Linux and embedded real-time hypervisors. Gain insights from experts Ralf Ramsauer, Wolfgang Mauerer, and Jan Kiszka as they discuss the challenges of balancing security mitigations with the performance requirements of real-time applications.