Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 testing with Windows Server 2016 toggling kernel VA Shadow for Meltdown mitigation.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1803300-PTS-MITIGATI50
Windows Server 2016 VA vs. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Mitigations,
"ebizzy 0.3 - ",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",5417,5247,5414
"Kernel VA Shadow",4832,4658,4815
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",273086,269165,270901
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",259421,260874,262518
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",277269,259490,258749,241534,224367,276520
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",259298,258197,275843,241650,259681,275847
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",273839,244370,261229,259929,227347,278735
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",276169,275493,277480
"OSBench - Test: Create Files",
Lower Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",248.544186,248.421698,248.915064
"Kernel VA Shadow",267.976265,266.498476,265.672648
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",13.601428,13.683493,13.378843
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",12.793739,12.8097,12.795464
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",11.088032,11.313746,11.341305
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",13.161365,13.392867,13.350625
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",12.374097,12.375272,12.44055
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",11.080738,11.022281,10.997804
"CacheBench - Test: Read",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",7576.5916800476,7577.0845525238,7577.5123369048
"Kernel VA Shadow",7050.875343381,7113.9452675714,7121.2450894762
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",3311.5029524762,3338.3962955714,3343.222420381
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",3361.6056869524,3300.2047916667,3379.4522894286
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",3357.440869619,3368.5615252857,3358.8512681429
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",3343.7813283333,3343.0056849524,3361.644693619
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",3371.5349904286,3298.8890211905,3377.3036953333
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",3369.3049920952,3370.2366532381,3372.9962660952
"PHPBench 0.8.1 - PHP Benchmark Suite",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",331418,338279,337205
"Kernel VA Shadow",317563,318235,317034
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",656086,643094,638154
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",641556,651113,650970
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",640029,643042,652808
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",626102,650918,643018
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",651516,649584,655818
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",643810,641980,652170
"OSBench - Test: Launch Programs",
Lower Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",494.858939,493.595562,494.171839
"Kernel VA Shadow",527.702819,521.070101,522.663172
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",40.361881,40.187836,40.309429
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",37.138462,37.138462,36.871433
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",36.349297,36.299229,37.181377
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",40.040016,39.801598,39.639473
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",37.338734,37.171841,37.219524
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",36.950111,36.518574,36.809444
"IOzone 3.465 - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",572.142578125,612.4970703125,551.82421875,540.041015625,484.0595703125,596.984375
"Kernel VA Shadow",556.232421875,522.69921875,562.8203125,556.015625
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",1013.2607421875,1023.2705078125,1019.0361328125
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",810.052734375,773.767578125,804.6171875
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",880.064453125,890.7509765625,896.8671875
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",845.1904296875,886.7646484375,866.6298828125
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",822.0380859375,823.2001953125,825.568359375
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",905.3466796875,903.625,906.046875
"SQLite 3.22 - Timed SQLite Insertions",
Lower Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",108.13789391518,109.08257293701,107.70954084396
"Kernel VA Shadow",114.47280693054,113.56229376793,114.09262990952
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",73.345275878906,70.828161001205,71.321688175201
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",66.772662878036,66.5553150177,66.395623207092
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",76.248328208923,76.478569030762,76.016819000244
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",74.523571014404,74.412976980209,74.638981819153
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",63.575133085251,64.510493993759,64.590638875961
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",63.916706085205,64.071458816528,63.568774938583
"CacheBench - Test: Read / Modify / Write",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",45647.275859571,45633.743061619,45628.550887333
"Kernel VA Shadow",42860.171921381,42840.649255524,42866.73029119
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",27519.037553714,29373.414143905,29280.380609619,29477.435768381
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",28849.615787571,29246.832572476,29711.155104333
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",29428.842919857,28664.124467476,28869.596837286
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",29578.106365429,29083.515193667,29679.939721286
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",28988.217278333,28158.884729476,28964.818334048
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",29587.808374857,29558.429741429,28728.323190952
"Timed LLVM Compilation 4.0.1 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",927.22338795662,928.87910604477,933.03895998001
"Kernel VA Shadow",933.13778400421,936.64289903641,934.7472910881
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",742.22512292862,740.37432098389,740.47229003906
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",735.48116898537,735.17129993439,735.35676503181
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",734.31358599663,733.73317503929,733.94492697716
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",739.93057608604,740.08649802208,739.28295516968
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",735.36380505562,736.10549807549,736.8198299408
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",734.98431897163,735.86060786247,735.14256596565
"OSBench - Test: Memory Allocations",
Lower Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",75.907942,75.452184,75.654989
"Kernel VA Shadow",83.326499,84.540558,82.484526
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",76.516867,76.305151,76.092958
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",72.520018,72.47591,72.753191
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",72.616816,72.746038,72.274923
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",75.343132,75.025082,74.892044
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",72.241068,72.554111,72.58296
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",72.41106,72.427988,72.304964
"PyBench 2018-02-16 - Total For Average Test Times",
Lower Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",1391,1395,1398
"Kernel VA Shadow",1483,1473,1485
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",1288,1291,1288
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",1293,1286,1291
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",1285,1289,1286
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",1286,1284,1292
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",1283,1289,1281
"Java SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",5973.5665698519,5999.8168466876,5973.5665698519,5823.8693029707
"Kernel VA Shadow",5349.0040993127,5377.9743614546,5299.6930393184,5377.9749927737
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",5958.9014107559,6006.4157990916,5965.4106188026,5967.0399491026
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",6209.5885593062,6013.0288887025,6054.6932069891,6069.8342518091
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",6184.9753488784,6003.1141160979,5928.1773873939,6086.7465629981
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",6049.6629643011,6179.7263940377,6181.4753334813,5967.0399491026
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",6160.5564889545,6021.3160536369,6172.7417692594,6169.2551666054
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",6016.3406997735,6200.7758505553,6202.5363066291,6081.6629417967
"GIMP 2.8.22 - Test: resize",
Lower Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",2.7277340888977,2.7301158905029,2.7555351257324
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",3.1338379383087,3.0123190879822,3.0373220443726
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",2.892144203186,2.8513040542603,2.794261932373
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",2.8133869171143,2.7345478534698,2.6897280216217
"Java SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",2475.1913036237,2480.5530369559,2471.4135327331,2449.488026974
"Kernel VA Shadow",2242.7103994211,2249.4944742146,2243.2119301888,2253.697850945
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",2431.2329813198,2440.445355743,2428.5557123895,2434.0585904754
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",2508.374376929,2453.3126726409,2456.3869895703,2465.0778260717
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",2478.8726496285,2458.5652285746,2310.8291963401,2466.1932916945
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",2458.2341205857,2477.9981850019,2477.8334692835,2437.4886673702
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",2480.7854431999,2456.0423823377,2485.4346489776,2488.1947542299
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",2457.6300569008,2486.1044217277,2489.3121792263,2461.9847856716
"Java SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Monte Carlo",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",981.93123567224,981.48248791982,981.48238097117,981.48248791982
"Kernel VA Shadow",887.38990921385,895.5311285621,903.06301276702,897.02740187701
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",975.68544852005,973.4739622541,967.77086533058,975.24239003928
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",983.28005173825,983.73044511655,983.73044511655,983.28005173825
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",934.90801575753,981.03404328925,981.03415014021,981.93134271873
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",983.28005173825,981.93123567224,981.48238097117,973.9154150133
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",983.28005173825,984.18135882871,983.28005173825,983.28005173825
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",983.73055255568,982.38039396007,983.73044511655,982.82996334694
"Java SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",2297.4933615284,2298.5005192236,2266.7012892972,2282.4902728455
"Kernel VA Shadow",2097.152,2087.1336882328,2119.1916121683,2088.7968206854
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",2277.5325350751,2270.6279624742,2255.0021042895,2276.5436651282
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",2294.4769378834,2293.4733024404,2294.4771772908,2293.4733024404
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",2289.4672870464,2270.6279624742,1700.0258793556,2285.4752418842
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",2291.4686632751,2291.4686632751,2293.4733024404,2287.469403784
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",2291.4686632751,2294.4771772908,2292.4705446212,2292.4705446212
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",2293.4733024404,2293.4733024404,2295.4814521027,2287.4696417313
"Java SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",1550.8691384051,1550.8692872003,1540.9475251084,1541.5640064
"Kernel VA Shadow",1411.171765421,1414.27895445,1418.4431377174,1418.9653543183
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",1442.3316298791,1436.9538137105,1435.8830082303,1438.0260895528
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",1454.305614078,1454.305614078,1453.7570662867,1452.113772531
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",1454.305614078,1438.5629558342,1441.2527974059,1440.7140503546
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",1452.6610806579,1424.7357207759,1428.4322021455,1445.5777103971
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",1453.2088015061,1438.0262174827,1452.6610806579,1453.7570662867
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",1453.7570662867,1455.4040835438,1455.9538752159,1454.305614078
"GIMP 2.8.22 - Test: unsharp-mask",
Lower Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",9.8720850944519,9.8845109939575,10.018637895584
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",10.983566999435,10.794008016586,10.712882041931
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",10.002590894699,9.9916608333588,10.08917593956
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",9.9425189495087,9.8680241107941,9.9645540714264
"GIMP 2.8.22 - Test: auto-levels",
Lower Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",5.3267951011658,5.348916053772,5.3219180107117
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",5.7576949596405,5.7760229110718,5.8171389102936
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",5.4092838764191,5.38108086586,5.4241309165955
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",5.3784909248352,5.3512809276581,5.3695299625397
"Java SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",1572.0962126609,1572.0960437484,1594.3698984366,1618.0340647339
"Kernel VA Shadow",1468.8342231579,1472.5542383734,1475.6688489727,1485.7246850706
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",1501.7138823689,1514.7552411847,1518.7119652946,1513.440858554
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",1600.2207216393,1522.025112867,1495.2770521682,1526.6877518399
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",1530.7069823824,1599.4870651776,1503.6557674051,1536.099260517
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",1514.0978429564,1512.1289112486,1504.3041273792,1513.440858554
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",1515.4132105256,1542.2111044493,1526.0197986113,1542.2109418977
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",1540.8486634479,1498.4884781387,1508.8588170673,1503.6557674051
"CacheBench - Test: Write",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",28033.735215762,28037.438544905,28032.427647
"Kernel VA Shadow",26323.063612048,26309.966619524,26350.386237667
"Ubuntu 18.04 - Stock",27681.183699143,27755.013732905,27639.181009905
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti",28297.605559143,28235.579628667,27444.603877905
"Ubuntu 18.04 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",26932.039728381,27601.160908095,26686.961439429
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16",28323.033909476,28244.012930905,27480.766280476
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti",26949.285615857,27557.28266319,27615.90501919
"Ubuntu 18.04 + Linux 4.16 - nopti + spectre_v2=off",27026.596945381,27677.890606238,28275.535230238
"Diskspd 2.0.17 - Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 0 - Read Only - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",336.33,357.69,355.64
"Kernel VA Shadow",334.69,334.04,333.91
"Diskspd 2.0.17 - Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 0 - Read Only - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",86099.79,91567.83,91042.79
"Kernel VA Shadow",85681.63,85514.15,85481.74
"Diskspd 2.0.17 - Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 50 - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",3.72,3.76,3.71
"Kernel VA Shadow",3.54,3.65,3.55
"Diskspd 2.0.17 - Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 50 - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",952.09,962.92,949.13
"Kernel VA Shadow",906.37,933.69,909.81
"Diskspd 2.0.17 - Threads Per Target: 6 - Write Requests (Percent): 50 - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",3.9,3.88,3.91
"Kernel VA Shadow",3.7,3.79,3.77
"Diskspd 2.0.17 - Threads Per Target: 6 - Write Requests (Percent): 50 - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",998.53,992.96,1001.06
"Kernel VA Shadow",946.21,969.38,965.44
"GIMP 2.9.8 - Test: unsharp-mask",
Lower Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",20.656728029251,20.749414205551,20.546389102936
"Kernel VA Shadow",21.267775058746,21.306837081909,21.334189891815
"Redis 3.2.1 - Test: LPUSH",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",909504.31,910829.75,896619.75
"Kernel VA Shadow",878425.88,879507.5,882456.75
"GIMP 2.9.8 - Test: auto-levels",
Lower Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",15.390367031097,14.451990127563,14.38932800293,14.28012919426,14.358180046082
"Kernel VA Shadow",14.789208889008,14.848303079605,14.814285039902
"GIMP 2.9.8 - Test: resize",
Lower Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",12.827627897263,12.217323064804,12.420754909515
"Kernel VA Shadow",12.177242994308,12.539899110794,12.460495948792
"WinSAT - Test: Disk",
Higher Results Are Better
"No Mitigations",76.08,81.4,81.69,208.74,144.29,93.42
"Kernel VA Shadow",79.86,70.14,80.82,75.77,275.95,88.45