NovaCustom NV41 Qubes OS vCPU affinity Testing the performance impact of performance/efficient cores in a Qubes OS VM Performance (4 cores): Processor: Intel Core i7-1260P (4 Cores), Memory: 6GB, Disk: 78GB, Graphics: llvmpipe OS: Fedora Linux 38, Kernel: 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.14, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 23.1.9 (LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 13.2.1 20231011, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: Xen 4.17.2 Hypervisor Efficient (4 cores): Processor: Intel Core i7-1260P (4 Cores), Memory: 6GB, Disk: 78GB, Graphics: llvmpipe OS: Fedora Linux 38, Kernel: 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.14, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 23.1.9 (LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 13.2.1 20231011, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: Xen 4.17.2 Hypervisor No affinity forced (4 cores): Processor: Intel Core i7-1260P (4 Cores), Memory: 6GB, Disk: 78GB, Graphics: llvmpipe OS: Fedora Linux 38, Kernel: 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.14, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 23.1.9 (LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 13.2.1 20231011, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: Xen 4.17.2 Hypervisor Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores: Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core (4 Cores), Memory: 6GB, Disk: 78GB, Graphics: llvmpipe OS: Fedora Linux 38, Kernel: 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.14, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 23.1.9 (LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 13.2.1 20231011, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: Xen 4.17.2 Hypervisor C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 8MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 9951.4 |================================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 4864.0 |================ No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 6023.1 |==================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 10102.0 |================================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 16MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 9897.2 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 4700.5 |================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 5489.5 |=================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 9763.3 |=================================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 32MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 8853.4 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 4400.5 |================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 6131.7 |======================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 8165.6 |================================ C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 64MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 7993.7 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 4169.3 |================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 5488.3 |======================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 7238.8 |================================ C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 8MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 8294.8 |================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 4689.4 |=================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 5989.5 |========================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 8471.8 |=================================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 128MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 6699.3 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3765.4 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 4976.4 |========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 6154.5 |================================ C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 256MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 5277.3 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3001.6 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 3893.3 |========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 4795.3 |================================ C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 8MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 7702.6 |================================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3862.0 |================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 4536.7 |=================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 8145.5 |=================================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 16MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 7590.5 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 4254.0 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 5655.9 |========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 7232.3 |================================= C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 32MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 6581.8 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 4053.6 |====================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 5199.7 |============================ Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 5385.7 |============================= C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 64MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 6346.2 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3847.7 |===================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 4911.5 |=========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 4851.4 |=========================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 16MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 7768.8 |================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3779.0 |================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 5356.7 |======================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 7964.0 |=================================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 32MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 7329.1 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3678.0 |================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 4912.5 |======================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 7314.7 |=================================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 64MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 6886.0 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3505.8 |================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 4722.9 |======================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 6639.0 |================================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 128MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 5404.7 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3385.3 |====================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 4366.2 |============================ Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 4280.8 |============================ C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 256MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 4590.5 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 2783.2 |===================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 3904.2 |============================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 3576.1 |=========================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 128MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 5775.3 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3188.1 |=================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 4407.0 |=========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 5727.7 |=================================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 256MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 4625.0 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 2622.4 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 3454.5 |========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 4552.4 |================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 50 |====================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 36 |============================ No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 49 |===================================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 51 |======================================= lzbench 1.8 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 135 |=============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 106 |======================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 136 |=============================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 166 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 595 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 403 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 601 |=================================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 655 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 2005 |================================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 1389 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 2023 |================================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 2259 |===================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 115 |==================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 69 |====================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 116 |==================================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 121 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 2164 |================================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 1512 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 2192 |================================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 2455 |===================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Crush 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 130 |=============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 81 |=================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 89 |===================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 159 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Crush 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 515 |============================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 409 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 436 |======================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 678 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 540 |================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 357 |====================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 417 |========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 612 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 600 |============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 479 |======================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 518 |========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 770 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 233 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 155 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 175 |========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 252 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 726 |============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 562 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 605 |========================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 911 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 297 |=================================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 186 |====================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 185 |====================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 319 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 1204 |================================ Efficient (4 cores) ............... 927 |======================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 930 |======================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 1409 |===================================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 1 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 8709.21 |============================ No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 10086.24 |================================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 9075.74 |============================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 1 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 438.0 |= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 3533.2 |============ Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 10001.5 |================================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 57.49 |================================ Efficient (4 cores) ............... 37.14 |===================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 62.88 |=================================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 64.13 |==================================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 3 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 3556.2 |============= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 2926.7 |========== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 143.8 |= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 9870.0 |=================================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 9 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 54.62 |=============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 35.11 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 53.71 |=============================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 62.86 |==================================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 9 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 2165.4 |======== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 1823.7 |======= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 3436.3 |============= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 9239.9 |=================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 983.6 |============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 365.9 |=========== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 721.7 |====================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 1148.6 |=================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 3 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 1512.4 |================================ Efficient (4 cores) ............... 1073.2 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 1539.6 |================================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 1650.5 |=================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 8 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 212.7 |=========================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 132.2 |================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 159.7 |==================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 282.2 |==================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 8 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 1596.4 |=============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 1168.6 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 1669.2 |================================ Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 1798.4 |=================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 12 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 85.1 |================================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 54.3 |===================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 68.7 |========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 96.3 |===================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 12 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 1603.1 |================================ Efficient (4 cores) ............... 1155.4 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 1654.1 |================================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 1776.8 |=================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 8.21 |============================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 6.34 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 6.48 |======================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 10.03 |==================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 19 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 1392.2 |============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 983.4 |===================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 1309.3 |============================ Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 1630.9 |=================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 3, Long Mode - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 669.0 |============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 322.1 |============== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 526.1 |======================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 806.9 |==================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 3, Long Mode - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 1559.5 |================================ Efficient (4 cores) ............... 1099.5 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 1615.8 |================================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 1691.4 |=================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 8, Long Mode - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 214.8 |============================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 129.8 |================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 172.1 |======================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 270.5 |==================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 8, Long Mode - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 1640.3 |================================ Efficient (4 cores) ............... 1174.9 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 1713.9 |================================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 1811.6 |=================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 19, Long Mode - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 6.74 |============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 5.07 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 5.57 |========================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 8.27 |===================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 19, Long Mode - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 1341.1 |============================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 950.4 |====================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 1204.0 |=========================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 1546.6 |=================================== 7-Zip Compression 22.01 Test: Compression Rating MIPS > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 26573 |============================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 19257 |===================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 20012 |====================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 32918 |==================================== 7-Zip Compression 22.01 Test: Decompression Rating MIPS > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 14771 |====================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 15026 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 13605 |===================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 23715 |==================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 35.11 |========================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 50.46 |==================================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 40.48 |============================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 29.70 |===================== XZ Compression 5.2.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 Seconds < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 81.32 |============================ Efficient (4 cores) ............... 101.75 |=================================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 95.86 |================================= Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 74.65 |========================== System GZIP Decompression Seconds < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 2.810 |============================= Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3.450 |==================================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 3.336 |=================================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 2.532 |========================== System XZ Decompression Seconds < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 2.958 |============================ Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3.859 |==================================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 2.950 |============================ Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 2.587 |======================== System ZLIB Decompression 1.2.7 ms < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 3.005055 | Efficient (4 cores) ............... 3.574161 | No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 3.547565 | Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 1326.809543 |============================== RAR Compression 6.0.2 Linux Source Tree Archiving To RAR Seconds < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ............. 52.73 |======================== Efficient (4 cores) ............... 80.45 |==================================== No affinity forced (4 cores) ...... 78.31 |=================================== Desktop CPU Ryzen 5 5600X 4 cores . 51.13 |=======================