Tests for a future article.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1808277-RA-MICROCODE34
Linux 4.19 + New Microcode: Bare Metal vs. KVM Guest,
"Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Semaphores",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",1845389.18,1874279.23,1776218.88
"Stock: VM Guest",601893.59,599160.88,599074.92
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",1789488.2,1907660.01,1943849.86,1954352.42,1839575.92,1907472.31
"New Microcode: VM Guest",606615.25,598541.87,602376.73
"Primesieve 7.1 - 1e12 Prime Number Generation",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",8.618,8.665,8.568
"Stock: VM Guest",24.324,24.816,24.72
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",8.629,8.683,8.6
"New Microcode: VM Guest",23.943,24.803,24.474
"MariaDB 10.3.8 - Clients: 32",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",250.18764073055,244.20024420024,244.43901246639
"Stock: VM Guest",132.13530655391,129.76901116013,130.05592404734
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",226.44927536232,218.48372296264,217.43857360296
"New Microcode: VM Guest",151.72204521317,153.32720024532,151.05740181269
"PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",589851.836208,582533.751112,583288.784811
"Stock: VM Guest",389933.286554,380639.303569,382269.509529
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",589630.365416,586915.829936,589036.834076
"New Microcode: VM Guest",381897.593795,371243.626101,380226.829015
"Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",169.53190898895
"Stock: VM Guest",208.77668094635
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",171.02121686935
"New Microcode: VM Guest",208.5877430439
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",1728.39,1698.44,1711.53
"Stock: VM Guest",1487.71,1448.84,1466.39
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",1702.8,1694.84,1697.85
"New Microcode: VM Guest",1497.22,1489.43,1481.8
"Sysbench 2018-07-28 - Test: CPU",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",59671.7469,57671.3775,58923.8371
"Stock: VM Guest",51668.4882,51687.3014,51672.4753
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",59731.5615,59596.897,58783.1941
"New Microcode: VM Guest",51667.6901,51678.3515,51640.3401
"Blender 2.79a - Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",
"Stock: VM Guest",
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",
"New Microcode: VM Guest",
"Sysbench 2018-07-28 - Test: Memory",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",12143475.7693,11315289.6481,12588954.0473,11147099.8412,11941173.029,11564627.7316,11862845.7336,12035093.5761,12225375.9734,11232425.5692,11857128.5713,11260091.7897
"Stock: VM Guest",10541625.1326,10824302.3648,11023790.8664
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",11534002.8934,12166981.4489,11710055.6395
"New Microcode: VM Guest",10759951.5202,10371020.8002,10609864.9494
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3b - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",722.022,751.936,754.091
"Stock: VM Guest",685.965,663.174,672.088
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",732.011,719.839,742.942
"New Microcode: VM Guest",674.082,669.478,660.764
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",507.75,495.6,502.02
"Stock: VM Guest",429.94,476.26,476.26
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",485.06,488.4,488.82
"New Microcode: VM Guest",458.85,471.16,452.95
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Read Compiled Tree",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",2493.22,2448.63,2467.93
"Stock: VM Guest",2331.82,2373.54,2348.48
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",2517.11,2493.22,2424.74
"New Microcode: VM Guest",2352.13,2254.37,2239.17
"Tinymembench 2018-05-28 - Standard Memset",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",
"Stock: VM Guest",
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",
"x265 2.8 - H.265 Video Encoding",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",10.43,10.24,10.27
"Stock: VM Guest",10.27,10.46,10.36
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",10.32,10.34,10.31
"New Microcode: VM Guest",10.41,10.38,10.51
"NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 - Static Web Page Serving",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",24392.34,24863.33,24519.91
"Stock: VM Guest",29179.55,27871.41,24184.78
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",23896.44,23521.28,23819.49
"New Microcode: VM Guest",27424.79,27603.85,27318.08
"Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: System V Message Passing",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",5898140.36,5695096.24,7204389.66,8137354.96,5642848.88,8407773.26,8127121.06,6129639.27,7991000.01,7293226.62,8526297.28,5593794.09
"Stock: VM Guest",11525711.7,11492185.52,11249479.5
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",7008764.26,5704569.29,6694144.75,8091486,7960781.53,8290950.96,5669163.91,9451485.1,5597754.01
"New Microcode: VM Guest",12306693.14,12139448.28,12142060.58
"Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Context Switching",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",25488585.27,18806256.77,23532255.6,23956801.26,24948856.78,26543022,20802760.49,17954493.96,20139563.24,24966027.47,19282654.73,20396038.22
"Stock: VM Guest",12780691.58,12591828.51,12741792.69
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",23118004,22991590.76,19067607.09,21750231.99,26636963.05,20716596,24525886.23,22991685.52,23605988.15,24276906.05,22713130.53,23321791.61
"New Microcode: VM Guest",12116566.29,11948259.38,12182622.46
"Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Socket Activity",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",10233.84,906.32,1096.22,1796.77,7744.44,1400.85,1696.52,3259.09,5398.5,1796.01,1890.78,4236.17
"Stock: VM Guest",13886.8,14089.3,14407.74
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",10268.58,486.9,1196.99,360.13,8797.12,1510.45,1485.25,2687.74,5831.06,1444.15,2346.31,3342.77
"New Microcode: VM Guest",12689.59,12980.15,13403.07
"Redis 4.0.8 - Test: SET",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",1680672.25,1618123,1669449.12
"Stock: VM Guest",1402524.5,1727115.75,1501501.5,1297016.88,1477104.88,1418439.75,1164144.38,1466275.75,1242236,1434720.12,1555209.88,1776198.88
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",1666666.62,1700680.25,1697792.88
"New Microcode: VM Guest",1358695.62,1420454.5,1766784.5,1754386,1256281.38,1362397.75,1310616,1366120.25,1589825.12,1154734.38,1216545,1168224.25
"Redis 4.0.8 - Test: GET",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",1858736.12,2341920.5,2173913,2053388.12,2032520.25,2283105,2183406,2293578,2202643.25,1972386.5,2057613.12,2262443.5
"Stock: VM Guest",2247191,2237136.5,1779359.5,2024291.5,1644736.88,1748251.62,2132196,2222222.25,2212389.5,1941747.62,2136752.25,1672240.88
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",2049180.25,2057613.12,2070393.38
"New Microcode: VM Guest",2173913,1776198.88,2123142.25,2169197.5,2155172.5,2132196,2074688.88,1848428.75,1745200.62,2127659.5,1757469.25,1886792.5
"Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",30.9,38.227,41.729,37.079,30.227,37.176,37.357,37.596,36.447,31.623,36.723,33.706
"Stock: VM Guest",72.041,71.34,71.237
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",35.577,37.969,36.64
"New Microcode: VM Guest",74.524,72.752,74.096
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock: Bare Metal",45.487368822098,32.932481050491,33.213185071945,32.632555007935,32.496937990189,32.571185827255,32.34636592865,32.951699018478,32.086449146271,32.191966056824,32.450706005096,33.054892063141
"Stock: VM Guest",41.130258083344,36.965282917023,38.802274942398,36.17516207695,36.756567955017,36.38757109642,36.607787132263,37.128574848175,36.668237924576,37.131944894791,36.916311979294,35.900310993195
"New Microcode: Bare Metal",38.531962156296,34.120173931122,33.798422813416,32.652750968933,33.212629079819,32.260981082916,32.485580921173,32.680871963501,33.738684892654,32.572171211243,32.36945605278,32.378257989883
"New Microcode: VM Guest",41.167783021927,37.207273960114,36.415091991425,36.025224208832,36.88840007782,37.065041065216,36.097577095032,35.69198679924,36.256345033646,36.389622926712,36.741451025009,36.885051012039