Mitigation Tests 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 testing with a TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS) and ASPEED ASPEED Family on Debian testing via the Phoronix Test Suite. Xeon - KPTI + Retpoline: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Xeon - Retpoline: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Xeon: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Bork File Encrypter 1.4 File Encryption Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon - KPTI + Retpoline . 7.95 |=============================================== Xeon - Retpoline ........ 7.56 |============================================= Xeon .................... 7.38 |============================================ LuaJIT 2.0.5 Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Xeon - KPTI + Retpoline . 1185.29 |============================================ Xeon - Retpoline ........ 1172.45 |=========================================== Xeon .................... 1186.43 |============================================ LuaJIT 2.0.5 Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Xeon - KPTI + Retpoline . 1349.57 |=========================================== Xeon - Retpoline ........ 1343.83 |=========================================== Xeon .................... 1387.60 |============================================ Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon - KPTI + Retpoline . 0.90 |=============================================== Xeon - Retpoline ........ 0.90 |=============================================== Xeon .................... 0.88 |==============================================