(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #107) > Just to be sure: did you already test the kernel in OBS Kernel:HEAD, which > is based on the latest 4.20-rc? Now I have (4.20.0-rc6-2.g91eea17-default). It seems the situation remains the same even there. With hyperthreading enabled overall user experience is bad due to lagginess, with nosmt=force it's usable.