tickless-base-taskset KVM testing on Fedora 24 via the Phoronix Test Suite. tickless-base-taskset: Processor: POWER8 @ 3.43GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: CHRP IBM p (emulated by qemu), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 158GB, Graphics: bochsdrmfb OS: Fedora 24, Kernel: 4.5.5-300.fc24.ppc64le (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20161221, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better tickless-base-taskset . 4.92 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better tickless-base-taskset . 24.05 |================================================