Back in July Intel’s Peter Zijlstra proposed “Call Depth Tracking” as a mitigation approach for handling Retbleed and avoiding the “performance horror show” of Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) usage. Out today is the newest version of the Call Depth Tracking code and the performance benchmark results are looking very promising for lessening the pain of the Retbleed CPU mitigation performance impact…

Source: Phoronix – Call Depth Tracking Mitigation Updated For Linux In Better Mitigating Retbleed