2.6.38

2.6.38 is a kernel. The 2.6.38 has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.

OpenBenchmarking.org Results

Global Results

bzip2 - Tests on LinuxMint 9, Intel Xeon X5647, Quadro NVS 450, LENOVO Lenovo

ws-ubuhf - Tests on LinuxMint 9, Intel Xeon X5647, Quadro NVS 450, LENOVO Lenovo

2012-03-02-1613 - Tests on LinuxMint 9, Intel Xeon X5647, Quadro NVS 450, LENOVO Lenovo

Core i7 2600 - Tests on Ubuntu 11.04, Intel Core i7-2600, Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP, HP 1495

testdbench - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, GeForce 9300, ASUS P5N7A-VM

test hdparm - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, GeForce 9300, ASUS P5N7A-VM

uuuu - Tests on Fedora 15, Intel Core 2 Duo E8200, S3 Chrome 500, Gigabyte . P35-DS3L

rob-7839-4126-24592 - Tests on Fedora 15, Intel Core i7-2600, Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS, Apple Mac-942B59F58194171B

cpucrashtest - Tests on MandrivaLinux 2010.2, Intel Core i7 920, NVIDIA G92, Intel DX58SO

iozone-512MB-read - Tests on Fedora release 15, Intel Core i5-2400, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe

cpucrashtest - Tests on MandrivaLinux 2010.2, Intel Core i7 920, NVIDIA G92, Intel DX58SO

cpucrashtest - Tests on MandrivaLinux 2010.2, Intel Core i7 920, NVIDIA G92, Intel DX58SO

cpucrashtest - Tests on MandrivaLinux 2010.2, Intel Core i7 920, NVIDIA G92, Intel DX58SO

mikey-openarena - Tests on Fedora 15, Intel Core i7-2600K, GeForce GTX 560 Ti, ASUS P8P67 LE, Intel Pentium D 2.80GHz, GeForce 210, Gigabyte . G41M-ES2L

Phoronix Information

Linux 2.6.38 To Linux 3.2 Nouveau DRM Benchmarks: Earlier this month I showed the Intel graphics performance hasn't improved much in the Linux 3.2 kernel (but there might be a boost when RC6 is flipped on), but how is this new kernel shaping up for NVIDIA hardware owners wishing to use the open-source and reverse-engineered Nouveau driver? In this article are some benchmarks of the Nouveau DRM driver from recent Linux releases.

A Comment On The Linux 2.6.38 Power Regression: Jesse Barnes, the maintainer of the PCI subsystem for the Linux kernel and one of the developers who signed-off on the patch that I discovered is causing the major Linux 2.6.38 kernel power regression, has commented on the matter...

AMD Fusion Falters With Linux 2.6.38 Final: Some may have noticed that hours before Linus released the Linux 2.6.38 kernel, he pulled the latest DRM-fixes code, which included fixes by David Airlie for my Fusion graphics problem last week and another Fusion graphics issue I reported over the weekend.

Linux 2.6.38 Kernel Released: Just as expected, Linus Torvalds released the Linux 2.6.38 kernel over the night. Since the previous Linux 2.6.38-rc8 release there's been some Btrfs file-system updates and other regression fixes throughout, including two fixes for my AMD Fusion Linux problems.

Intel Graphics Get A Boost With Linux 2.6.38, Mesa 7.11: Earlier this week I talked about the direction of ATI Radeon graphics in Ubuntu 11.04, which is quite positive with there being measurable 3D performance improvements in the latest open-source driver code, after a week prior talking about a massive Intel Sandy Bridge performance fix that is able to now put the open-source Linux performance closer to being on-par with Intel's Windows OpenGL driver.

The Linux 2.6.38 Kernel Is A Few Days Away: The Linux 2.6.38 is effectively ready for release. The condition of the kernel is quite good (hence the large just-published seven-way file-system benchmarks on a SSD and HDD) and Linus noted Monday that when releasing the 2.6.38-rc8 kernel that it could even be considered final, but as he's away for a few days, he went ahead to do one final pre-release...

Large HDD/SSD Linux 2.6.38 File-System Comparison: Here are the results from our largest Linux file-system comparison to date. Using the soon-to-be-released Linux 2.6.38 kernel, on a SATA hard drive and solid-state drive, we benchmarked seven file-systems on each drive with the latest kernel code as of this past weekend.

Linux 2.6.38 Kernel Multi-Core Scaling: Last month there were benchmarks on Phoronix looking at the multi-core scaling performance of multiple operating systems, including CentOS 5.5, Fedora 14, FreeBSD 8.1, and OpenIndiana b148. CentOS 5.5 uses the long-term Linux 2.6.18 kernel while Fedora 14 has the more recent Linux 2.6.35 kernel by default, but a number of users asked how the Linux 2.6.38 kernel would fair for multi-core scaling with the removal of the Big Kernel Lock and various other low-level improvements in this forthcoming kernel.

Linux 2.6.38-rc7 Kernel Released: The stable Linux 2.6.38 kernel is in sight. Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 2.6.38-rc7 kernel, which is much less interesting than his weekend at an Oscar party...

Linux 2.6.38 EXT4, Btrfs File-System Benchmarks: Along with finally delivering Intel Gallium3D driver benchmarks comparing this unofficial, proof-of-concept i915/945 Gallium3D driver to Intel's official classic Mesa driver, there's also our benchmarks of the EXT4 and Btrfs file-systems from the Linux 2.6.38 kernel.

Linux 2.6.38-rc6 Kernel Released; Lots Of Small Fixes: The Linux 2.6.38-rc6 kernel has been released. The 2.6.38 kernel is getting into shape and will soon be released with the sixth release candidate carrying a variety of small fixes throughout this open-source kernel...

Linux 2.6.38-rc5 Brings Radeon, Intel, EXT4 Fixes: In his weekly manner, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 2.6.38-rc5 kernel, This fifth test release isn't particularly exciting, but it brings scattered bug-fixes to the Intel and Radeon graphics drivers, EXT4 file-system fixes, and a RCU file-name lookup bug found under Ubuntu...