AFAIK. Because Tile(ra) architecture (CCR) support is dropped after kernel v4.14.x

According to Normis they don't use kernel's support for Tile so this won't affect them:

FYI https://threatpost.com/poc-attack-escal ... ts/138076/

Excellent comment, nz_monkey. Thanks for clarifying it for others, much appreciated. @normis is there anything on the horizon that will help offset the shortcomings of current CCRs in terms of BGP performance aside from ROS7/multi-threading? E.g. a CCR device with a more powerful CPU? Or this is ra...