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
Tests for a future article.
,,"Stock: Bare Metal","Stock: VM Guest","New Microcode: Bare Metal","New Microcode: VM Guest"
Processor,,2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),64 x Intel Xeon (Skylake IBRS) @ 2.00GHz (64 Cores),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),64 x Intel Xeon (Skylake IBRS) @ 2.00GHz (64 Cores)
Motherboard,,TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS),QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (1.10.2-1ubuntu1 BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS),QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (1.10.2-1ubuntu1 BIOS)
Chipset,,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC
Memory,,96256MB,47104MB,96256MB,47104MB
Disk,,256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,162GB,256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,162GB
Graphics,,ASPEED ASPEED Family,Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card,ASPEED ASPEED Family,Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card
Monitor,,VE228,,VE228,
Network,,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Red Hat Virtio device,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Red Hat Virtio device
Audio,,,QEMU Generic,,QEMU Generic
OS,,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04
Kernel,,4.18.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20180824,4.18.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20180824,4.18.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20180824,4.18.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20180824
Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2
Display Server,,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6
Display Driver,,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6
Compiler,,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1024x768,1920x1080,1024x768
System Layer,,,KVM,,KVM
,,"Stock: Bare Metal","Stock: VM Guest","New Microcode: Bare Metal","New Microcode: VM Guest"
"Stress-NG - Test: Semaphores (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,1831962.43,600043.13,1890399.79,602511.28
"Stress-NG - Test: Socket Activity (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,3454.63,14127.95,3313.12,13024.27
"Stress-NG - Test: Context Switching (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,22234776.32,12704770.93,22976365.08,12082482.71
"Stress-NG - Test: System V Message Passing (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,7053890.14,11422458.91,7163233.31,12196067.33
"Sysbench - Test: Memory (Events/sec)",HIB,11764465.11,10796572.79,11803679.99,10580279.09
"Sysbench - Test: CPU (Events/sec)",HIB,58755.65,51676.09,59370.55,51662.13
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,742.68,673.74,731.60,668.11
"x265 - H.265 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,10.31,10.36,10.32,10.43
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,1712.79,1467.65,1698.50,1489.48
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,501.79,460.82,487.43,460.99
"Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,2469.93,2351.28,2478.36,2281.89
"Tinymembench - Standard Memset (MB/s)",HIB,9298.20,8980.20,9151.70,
"MariaDB - Clients: 32 (Queries/sec)",HIB,246,131,221,152
"Redis - Test: GET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2142971.11,1999876.29,2059062.25,1997504.97
"Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1656081.46,1455207.36,1688379.92,1393755.40
"NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,24591.86,27078.58,23745.74,27448.91
"PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,585224.79,384280.70,588527.68,377789.35
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,33.70,37.21,33.40,36.90
"Timed LLVM Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,169.53,208.78,171.02,208.59
"Primesieve - 1e12 Prime Number Generation (sec)",LIB,8.62,24.62,8.64,24.41
"Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,35.73,71.54,36.73,73.79
"Blender - Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,374.05,423.31,373.98,420.12