Linux 4.16 Git On Intel Xeon Gold 6138 Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"Linux 4.14.0","Linux 4.15.0","Linux 4.16 Git","Linux 4.16 Git - KPTI Disabled","Linux 4.16 Git - Retpoline + KPTI Disabled" Processor,,2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads) Motherboard,,TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS) Chipset,,Intel Device 2020,Intel Device 2020,Intel Device 2020,Intel Device 2020,Intel Device 2020 Memory,,96256MB,96256MB,96256MB,96256MB,96256MB Disk,,256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150 Graphics,,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family Monitor,,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228 Network,,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS,,Ubuntu 17.10,Ubuntu 17.10,Ubuntu 17.10,Ubuntu 17.10,Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel,,4.14.0-041400-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-041500-generic (x86_64),4.16.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20180302,4.16.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20180302,4.16.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20180302 Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.26.2,GNOME Shell 3.26.2,GNOME Shell 3.26.2,GNOME Shell 3.26.2,GNOME Shell 3.26.2 Display Driver,,modesetting 1.19.5,modesetting 1.19.5,modesetting 1.19.5,modesetting 1.19.5,modesetting 1.19.5 Compiler,,GCC 7.2.0,GCC 7.2.0,GCC 7.2.0,GCC 7.2.0,GCC 7.2.0 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"Linux 4.14.0","Linux 4.15.0","Linux 4.16 Git","Linux 4.16 Git - KPTI Disabled","Linux 4.16 Git - Retpoline + KPTI Disabled" "SQLite - Timed SQLite Insertions (sec)",LIB,38.50,44.85,47.48,46.89,46.26 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (MB/s)",HIB,379,379,379,377,379 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (IOPS)",HIB,96933,97133,97067,96533,97067 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (MB/s)",HIB,334,225,142.60,143.27,144.90 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (IOPS)",HIB,85467,57550,36350,36650,36950 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (MB/s)",HIB,447,445,447,444,445 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (IOPS)",HIB,114000,113667,114000,114000,114000 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (MB/s)",HIB,410,411,400,401,401 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (IOPS)",HIB,104667,105000,102260,102900,102567 "IOzone - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance (MB/s)",HIB,355.83,312.95,236.19,232.15,224.86 "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,1717.94,1706.97,1688.96,1691.22,1824.81 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,532.72,503.99,512.84,525.76,575.00 "Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,2520.76,2282.78,2233.51,2403.41,2618.90 "Unpacking The Linux Kernel - linux-4.15.tar.xz (sec)",LIB,6.57,6.37,6.25,6.25,6.27 "ebizzy - (Records/s)",HIB,981271,981395,951219,958229,931733 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,29.67,30.55,30.36,29.93,29.80 "Gzip Compression - Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz (sec)",LIB,43.24,40.37,41.23,41.20,40.96 "Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,21.26,27.08,28.63,26.55,27.57 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,7961.67,8047.30,8023.97,8034.63,7994.07 "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Total (ms)",LIB,116140,27070,27080,26080,26080 "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Kernel (ms)",LIB,4260,4380,4330,4260,4240 "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Loader (ms)",LIB,4450,,,, "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Firmware (ms)",LIB,85630,,,, "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Userspace (ms)",LIB,21790,22690,22740,21810,21830 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,616294.95,576717.56,575017.66,593939.04,607024.15 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,5108.61,2856.09,2837.88,2840.59,2799.04 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,18194.90,16972.97,16829.86,18114.54,19314.01 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,378.11,364.69,352.39,353.28,353.43 "Darktable - Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,6.17,5.65,5.55,5.68,5.68 "Darktable - Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,6.83,7.00,6.70,6.85,6.89 "Darktable - Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,2.84,2.76,2.75,2.86,2.72 "GIMP - Test: resize (sec)",LIB,5.47,6.57,6.61,5.90,5.58 "GIMP - Test: auto-levels (sec)",LIB,8.87,10.26,10.28,9.20,8.89 "GIMP - Test: unsharp-mask (sec)",LIB,16.63,19.42,19.30,17.30,17.00 "Redis - Test: LPOP (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2123911.98,1492703.32,1367188.17,1552259.58,1571867.38 "Redis - Test: SADD (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1756843.27,1704215.13,1727709.44,1907000.67,1797605.35 "Redis - Test: LPUSH (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1405021.96,1429751.52,1434689.23,1483454.25,1498533.71 "Redis - Test: GET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1977442.58,1674184.92,1972284.56,1852905.65,2030038.71 "Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1495461.65,1369092.00,1512573.84,1644617.90,1557027.75 "Stress-NG - Test: Crypto (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,6146.02,6150.35,6162.79,6156.87,6124.80 "Stress-NG - Test: Bsearch (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,19981.48,19942.34,19896.41,19973.43,19997.94 "Stress-NG - Test: Forking (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,72786.98,71294.78,71309.16,70952.71,72603.75 "Stress-NG - Test: Hsearch (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,173998.21,174371.13,172705.61,175427.64,175371.56 "Stress-NG - Test: Lsearch (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,388.43,388.67,385.88,385.19,388.49 "Stress-NG - Test: Tsearch (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,646.70,644.78,658.35,656.65,655.28 "Stress-NG - Test: CPU Stress (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,12564.69,12500.95,12402.76,12369.36,12427.50 "Stress-NG - Test: Semaphores (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,1891367.57,1766422.77,1852337.42,1806794.32,1747936.92 "Stress-NG - Test: Matrix Math (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,196655.87,198586.10,196930.26,199052.35,197445.90 "Stress-NG - Test: Vector Math (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,70223.57,69636.74,69228.57,70088.88,69686.12 "Stress-NG - Test: Memory Copying (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,6590.56,6013.63,7420.83,7342.39,7301.17 "Stress-NG - Test: Socket Activity (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,3568.44,3539.00,3633.94,3540.02,3538.96 "Stress-NG - Test: Context Switching (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,3968206.84,10282301.19,10662279.96,3430038.28,5657979.43 "Stress-NG - Test: Glibc C String Functions (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,2234280.13,2240943.14,2219595.04,2252345.65,2170878.36 "Stress-NG - Test: Glibc Qsort Data Sorting (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,458.07,466.81,467.28,472.20,465.81 "Stress-NG - Test: System V Message Passing (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,6577455.91,5265790.50,6542375.29,6768425.39,6675737.71 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,28921.41,23551.40,24304.13,25562.07,30137.05 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,23763.75,18295.22,18535.04,19582.35,23331.20 "Schbench - Message Threads: 8 - Workers Per Message Thread: 8 (usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile)",LIB,1814,694,119,119,117 "Schbench - Message Threads: 16 - Workers Per Message Thread: 8 (usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile)",LIB,12928,13381,13048,12912,13104 "Schbench - Message Threads: 8 - Workers Per Message Thread: 16 (usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile)",LIB,15195,14843,15387,15168,14805 "Schbench - Message Threads: 16 - Workers Per Message Thread: 16 (usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile)",LIB,48917,44608,44309,44053,44139