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Disable L1TF first-level data cache flush

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Disables the L1 Terminal Fault hyperthreading mitigation, which costs ~10-15% in HT-heavy workloads on affected Intel CPUs. Per Microsoft's KB, only relevant for hosts running untrusted guest VMs.

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