Linux 4.7 CPUFreq Schedutil Testing Linux 4.7 kernel benchmarking. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article. CPUFreq Schedutil: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-phx-schedutil (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 CPUFreq Ondemand: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-phx-schedutil (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 CPUFreq Conservative: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-phx-schedutil (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 CPUFreq: Powersave: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-phx-schedutil (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 CPUFreq Performance: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-phx-schedutil (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 P-State Powersave: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-phx-schedutil (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 P-State Performance: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-phx-schedutil (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 13.89 |================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 12.60 |================ CPUFreq Conservative . 12.86 |================= CPUFreq: Powersave ... 37.55 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance .. 12.97 |================= P-State Powersave .... 37.29 |================================================= P-State Performance .. 37.41 |================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 7.69 |==================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 6.92 |================== CPUFreq Conservative . 7.05 |================== CPUFreq: Powersave ... 18.92 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance .. 6.90 |================== P-State Powersave .... 18.95 |================================================= P-State Performance .. 18.93 |================================================= x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 350.60 |============================================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 309.95 |======================================== CPUFreq Conservative . 316.87 |========================================= CPUFreq: Powersave ... 142.94 |=================== CPUFreq Performance .. 369.27 |================================================ P-State Powersave .... 136.02 |================== P-State Performance .. 134.53 |================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 54.31 |=================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 54.47 |=================== CPUFreq Conservative . 56.25 |==================== CPUFreq: Powersave ... 135.35 |================================================ CPUFreq Performance .. 52.43 |================== P-State Powersave .... 136.33 |================================================ P-State Performance .. 135.89 |================================================ Open Porous Media Git OPM Benchmark: Upscale-Relperm - Threads: 16 Seconds < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 13.39 |========================= CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 13.50 |========================= CPUFreq Conservative . 13.76 |========================= CPUFreq: Powersave ... 26.61 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance .. 13.56 |========================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 20379.46 |====================================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 22338.88 |========================================== CPUFreq Conservative . 21548.41 |======================================== CPUFreq: Powersave ... 13062.79 |========================= CPUFreq Performance .. 24517.70 |============================================== P-State Powersave .... 13282.16 |========================= P-State Performance .. 13077.76 |========================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 606865.14 |============================================ CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 615364.58 |============================================= CPUFreq Conservative . 526209.74 |====================================== CPUFreq: Powersave ... 379283.76 |============================ CPUFreq Performance .. 609017.62 |============================================= P-State Powersave .... 387649.31 |============================ P-State Performance .. 387296.94 |============================ PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 5273.80 |=============================================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 5315.35 |=============================================== CPUFreq Conservative . 4695.58 |========================================= CPUFreq: Powersave ... 4905.52 |=========================================== CPUFreq Performance .. 5327.96 |=============================================== P-State Powersave .... 4852.10 |=========================================== P-State Performance .. 4832.19 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 178 |============================================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 195 |================================================== CPUFreq Conservative . 163 |========================================== CPUFreq: Powersave ... 70 |================== CPUFreq Performance .. 198 |=================================================== P-State Powersave .... 68 |================== P-State Performance .. 68 |================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 10.77 |================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 10.77 |================== CPUFreq Conservative . 10.90 |================== CPUFreq: Powersave ... 28.71 |================================================ CPUFreq Performance .. 10.73 |================== P-State Powersave .... 29.57 |================================================= P-State Performance .. 29.59 |================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 368.29 |================================================ CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 370.18 |================================================ CPUFreq Conservative . 360.80 |=============================================== CPUFreq: Powersave ... 139.09 |================== CPUFreq Performance .. 370.35 |================================================ P-State Powersave .... 111.97 |=============== P-State Performance .. 105.23 |============== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 1732.81 |============================================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 1772.83 |=============================================== CPUFreq Conservative . 1749.26 |============================================== CPUFreq: Powersave ... 624.45 |================= CPUFreq Performance .. 1748.54 |============================================== P-State Powersave .... 625.02 |================= P-State Performance .. 623.92 |================= LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 40.30 |================= CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 40.06 |================= CPUFreq Conservative . 40.15 |================= CPUFreq: Powersave ... 113.48 |================================================ CPUFreq Performance .. 41.00 |================= P-State Powersave .... 113.48 |================================================ P-State Performance .. 112.44 |================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 59.38 |================================================= CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 59.12 |================================================= CPUFreq Conservative . 59.36 |================================================= CPUFreq: Powersave ... 59.33 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance .. 59.12 |================================================= P-State Powersave .... 59.65 |================================================= P-State Performance .. 59.26 |================================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 63.66 |================================================ CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 64.34 |================================================= CPUFreq Conservative . 63.78 |================================================= CPUFreq: Powersave ... 63.44 |================================================ CPUFreq Performance .. 63.67 |================================================ P-State Powersave .... 63.71 |================================================= P-State Performance .. 63.29 |================================================ CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 6.40 |============================================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 6.40 |============================================== CPUFreq Conservative . 6.59 |=============================================== CPUFreq: Powersave ... 6.95 |================================================== CPUFreq Performance .. 6.42 |============================================== P-State Powersave .... 6.11 |============================================ P-State Performance .. 6.42 |============================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 4965.76 |============================================ CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 5276.47 |=============================================== CPUFreq Conservative . 5232.43 |=============================================== CPUFreq: Powersave ... 1814.06 |================ CPUFreq Performance .. 4991.63 |============================================ P-State Powersave .... 1814.70 |================ P-State Performance .. 4988.74 |============================================ HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 103.82 |================================================ CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 103.78 |================================================ CPUFreq Conservative . 103.94 |================================================ CPUFreq: Powersave ... 40.41 |================== CPUFreq Performance .. 103.87 |================================================ P-State Powersave .... 31.58 |============== P-State Performance .. 104.85 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 14136 |================================================= CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 14112 |================================================= CPUFreq Conservative . 14126 |================================================= CPUFreq: Powersave ... 5281 |================== CPUFreq Performance .. 14117 |================================================= P-State Powersave .... 4584 |================ P-State Performance .. 14136 |================================================= Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 256MB Array, 256 Byte Stride ns < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 65.24 |============================= CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 68.19 |=============================== CPUFreq Conservative . 64.77 |============================= CPUFreq: Powersave ... 106.10 |================================================ CPUFreq Performance .. 68.08 |=============================== P-State Powersave .... 107.03 |================================================ P-State Performance .. 69.46 |=============================== Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride, 4 Threads ns < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Schedutil .... 74.95 |================================ CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 72.74 |=============================== CPUFreq Conservative . 74.35 |================================ CPUFreq: Powersave ... 110.97 |=============================================== CPUFreq Performance .. 71.93 |=============================== P-State Powersave .... 112.77 |================================================ P-State Performance .. 73.16 |=============================== CPU Frequency (CPU0) Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Megahertz CPUFreq Schedutil .... MIN: 1200 AVG: 2475 MAX: 3101 CPUFreq Ondemand ..... MIN: 1200 AVG: 2319 MAX: 3101 CPUFreq Conservative . MIN: 1200 AVG: 2250 MAX: 3101 CPUFreq: Powersave ... MIN: 1200 AVG: 1200 MAX: 1200 CPUFreq Performance .. MIN: 3101 AVG: 3101 MAX: 3101 P-State Performance .. MIN: 0 AVG: 1512 MAX: 3501