Ubuntu 18.04 L1TF Foreshadow VM Testing KVM testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Unpatched: Processor: 4 x Intel Core (Skylake IBRS) @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (1.10.2-1ubuntu1 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 54GB, Graphics: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card, Audio: QEMU Generic, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-29-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5 (LLVM 6.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 98.84 |============================================================ Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 8874 |============================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 1274 |============================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 9134 |============================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 1086 |============================================================= IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 922.36 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 1328.00 |========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 416.48 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 516.22 |=========================================================== Sockperf 3.4 Test: Throughput Messages Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 608389 |=========================================================== Sockperf 3.4 Test: Latency Ping Pong usec < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 5.75 |============================================================= Sockperf 3.4 Test: Latency Under Load usec < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 22.51 |============================================================ Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: TCP Send File - Duration: 10 Seconds Megabits/sec Throughput > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 729.15 |=========================================================== Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: TCP Request Response - Duration: 10 Seconds Transaction Rate Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 451.16 |=========================================================== Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: UDP Request Response - Duration: 10 Seconds Transaction Rate Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 478.93 |=========================================================== Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: TCP Stream - Client To Server - Duration: 10 Seconds Megabits/sec Throughput > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 782.54 |=========================================================== Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: TCP Stream - Server To Client - Duration: 10 Seconds Megabits/sec Throughput > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 727.85 |=========================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3b Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 176.73 |=========================================================== ebizzy 0.3 Records/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 55282 |============================================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 174.09 |=========================================================== Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 1219.34 |========================================================== Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 145.39 |=========================================================== Hackbench Count: 4 - Type: Thread Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 39.51 |============================================================ Hackbench Count: 8 - Type: Thread Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 71.78 |============================================================ Hackbench Count: 16 - Type: Thread Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 136.41 |=========================================================== Hackbench Count: 4 - Type: Process Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 36.79 |============================================================ Hackbench Count: 8 - Type: Process Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 69.47 |============================================================ Hackbench Count: 16 - Type: Process Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 136.41 |=========================================================== OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 1063.50 |========================================================== MariaDB 10.3.8 Clients: 8 Queries Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 117 |============================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 68334.00 |========================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 1575.39 |========================================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: LPOP Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 2708988.79 |======================================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: SADD Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 2214955.17 |======================================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: LPUSH Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 1703830.04 |======================================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 2683822.96 |======================================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 1734716.73 |======================================================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Semaphores Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 5758937.58 |======================================================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Matrix Math Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 19718.65 |========================================================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Vector Math Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 6282.18 |========================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Socket Activity Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 2182.72 |========================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Context Switching Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 1555995.61 |======================================================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: System V Message Passing Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 2918974.67 |======================================================= Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: Memory Events Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 10023207.45 |====================================================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 5060.98 |========================================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 33452.39 |========================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 34925.29 |========================================================= Apache Siege 2.4.29 Concurrent Users: 50 Transactions Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 4487.40 |========================================================== Apache Siege 2.4.29 Concurrent Users: 100 Transactions Per Second > Higher Is Better Unpatched . 6837.78 |========================================================== Git Time To Complete Common Git Commands Seconds < Lower Is Better Unpatched . 5.78 |=============================================================