Guest Testing Xeon E3-1280v5
Testing for a future article on Phoronix.


Linux 4.15-rc5: 

	Processor: 8 x Intel Core (Skylake) @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 54GB, Graphics: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card, Audio: QEMU Generic, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.15.0-rc5 (x86_64) 20180103, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 5.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM

KVM Guest With KPTI: 

	Processor: 8 x Intel Core (Skylake) @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 54GB, Graphics: llvmpipe 12032MB, Audio: QEMU Generic, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.15.0-rc6-ptipts4 (x86_64) 20180103, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 5.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM


Go Benchmarks
Test: json
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 13938186 |===============================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 14079516 |===============================================


Go Benchmarks
Test: garbage
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 2758506 |================================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 2729587 |===============================================


Cpuminer-Opt
Algorithm: deep
Hash Speed > Higher Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 2933.04 |================================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 2939.57 |================================================


Cpuminer-Opt
Algorithm: cryptonight
Hash Speed > Higher Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 123.91 |================================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 125.97 |=================================================


x264 2017-09-08
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 183.55 |=================================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 181.63 |================================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 133.41 |=================================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 132.47 |=================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 22.33 |==================================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 22.26 |==================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 9.53 |===================================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 9.38 |==================================================


FFmpeg 3.3.3
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 6.89 |===================================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 6.94 |===================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 691.53 |=================================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 693.90 |=================================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 10.0
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 2271.93 |===============================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 2336.62 |================================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 10.0
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 3180.50 |================================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 3201.09 |================================================


Redis 3.0.1
Test: GET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 3198432.67 |=============================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 2868842.83 |========================================


Redis 3.0.1
Test: SET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 2149604.94 |=============================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 2079680.46 |============================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Linux 4.15-rc5 ...... 34618.23 |=============================================
KVM Guest With KPTI . 35805.97 |===============================================