Linux 4.9-rc1 Era Early Testing Broadwell-E Intel Core i7-6800K testing with a MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Linux 4.8.2: Processor: Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + 4 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.2-040802-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Linux 4.9 20161017: Processor: Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + 4 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161017, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 114.93 |================================================= Linux 4.9 20161017 . 116.85 |================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 92.20 |=================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 76.00 |========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 391.38 |================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 391.99 |================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 343.08 |================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 345.06 |================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 385.06 |========================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 457.35 |================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 343.20 |========================================= Linux 4.9 20161017 . 417.09 |================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 664.10 |=============================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 701.36 |================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 401.54 |=============================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 423.26 |================================================== FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 4096 Mflops > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 13532 |=================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 13274 |================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 2020.09 |================================================= Linux 4.9 20161017 . 2005.39 |================================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 9600 |================================================ Linux 4.9 20161017 . 10252 |=================================================== ebizzy 0.3 Phoronix Test Suite v6.6.1 Records/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 200459 |================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 196467 |================================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 2163297.83 |============================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 1922184.54 |========================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 1593270.50 |============================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 1595036.37 |============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 38197.79 |========================================= Linux 4.9 20161017 . 44726.20 |================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 1534.13 |========================================= Linux 4.9 20161017 . 1828.82 |================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 2322.24 |================================= Linux 4.9 20161017 . 3425.39 |================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 1390.15 |===================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 1847.15 |================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 2863.10 |================================================= Linux 4.9 20161017 . 2863.79 |================================================= Caffe AlexNet 2016-06-11 Build: CPU AlexNet Milli-Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 408366 |================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 396448 |================================================= Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 4MB Array, 64 Byte Stride ns < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 7.00 |==================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 6.95 |==================================================== Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 256MB Array, 256 Byte Stride ns < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 57.92 |=================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 56.31 |================================================== Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride, 4 Threads ns < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 67.74 |=================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 65.40 |================================================= SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 24.93 |=================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 25.04 |=================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 3.71 |================================================ Linux 4.9 20161017 . 4.05 |==================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 71.79 |=================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 71.06 |================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 6.70 |==================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 6.49 |================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 6.52 |==================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 6.46 |==================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 11.63 |================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 11.90 |=================================================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.8.2 ........ 15.63 |=================================================== Linux 4.9 20161017 . 15.64 |===================================================