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Microarchitecture Sources

Microarchitecture sources extract entropy from nondeterministic CPU and interconnect behavior at low levels.

Sources

Section titled “Sources”
  • speculative_execution
  • dvfs_race
  • tlb_shootdown
  • amx_timing
  • icc_atomic_contention
  • prefetcher_state
  • aprr_jit_timing
  • sev_event_timing
  • cntfrq_cache_timing
  • gxf_register_timing
  • dual_clock_domain
  • sitva
  • memory_bus_crypto
  • commoncrypto_aes_timing
  • cas_contention
  • denormal_timing

Notes

Section titled “Notes”

This category is broad and platform-sensitive. Validate with deep profile and cross-run comparisons before drawing conclusions from a single metric.