Core i9 9900K Spectre Meltdown Mitigations

Spectre and Meltdown benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com

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October 30 2018
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Core i9 9900K Spectre Meltdown Mitigations, "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Socket Activity", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",8678.57,7148.38,7136.8,7067.91,7235,6925.5,6988.64,7184.32,7146.41,7153.16,9283.41,7869.78 "No Mitigations",9136.46,9314.88,8454.91,9497.32,8092.41,8565.38,8553.58,8415.4,8536.2,8330.72,8461.45,8355.07 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Context Switching", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",5377651.41,5425660.37,5309999.82 "No Mitigations",6794366.56,6430755.82,6654109.29 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: System V Message Passing", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",9937455.02,9954662.96,9915904.39 "No Mitigations",11139260.29,11143406.08,11075137.5 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",643.26,688.87,682.86 "No Mitigations",680.62,729.29,738.42 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Read Compiled Tree", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",4104.58,4110.25,4169.74 "No Mitigations",4443.37,4167.73,4234.89 "Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 - Method: Get", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",166314.1,166752.7,166453.4 "No Mitigations",186887.3,186502.9,189757.9 "Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 - Method: Set", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",98780.3,98698.3,99060.5 "No Mitigations",114381.5,113847.1,111440.5 "Node.js Express HTTP Load Test - ", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",10445,10555,10536 "No Mitigations",10900,10678,10874 "Redis 4.0.8 - Test: GET", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",2923976.5,2932551.5,2923976.5 "No Mitigations",3225806.5,3257328.75,3225806.5 "Redis 4.0.8 - Test: SET", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",2262443.5,2262443.5,2272727.25 "No Mitigations",2475247.5,1992032,1992032,1992032,1992032,1988071.5,1992032,2450980.5,2463054.25,2457002.5,2444987.75,2457002.5 "NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",50096.58,50269.74,50369.36 "No Mitigations",57383.35,56935.95,56124.73 "Node.js Octane Benchmark - ", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",54522,53943,53789 "No Mitigations",54012,54220,54666 "PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only", Higher Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",233203.751142,231769.792342,232024.372526 "No Mitigations",239253.965045,238466.170516,238227.311347 "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Total", Lower Results Are Better "Default Mitigations", "No Mitigations", "Hackbench - Count: 16 - Type: Process", Lower Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",29.875,29.935,29.924 "No Mitigations",27.306,27.407,27.471 "GIMP 2.10.6 - Test: resize", Lower Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",7.1965570449829,7.1684250831604,7.459547996521 "No Mitigations",7.356929063797,8.4049878120422,7.0937261581421,7.132786989212,7.2515878677368,7.1663010120392,7.1809260845184,7.2631590366364,7.2721869945526,7.1164529323578,7.0710868835449,7.202595949173 "OSBench - Test: Create Files", Lower Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",10.546877,10.313945,10.301353 "No Mitigations",9.283823,9.188465,9.209053 "OSBench - Test: Create Threads", Lower Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",8.218288,8.180141,7.70092,8.471012,8.130074 "No Mitigations",8.161068,8.180141,7.209778,8.070469,7.429123,7.309914,7.719994,7.779598,8.120537,7.300377,7.560253,7.519722 "OSBench - Test: Launch Programs", Lower Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",24.180412,24.161339,24.030209 "No Mitigations",24.139881,24.36161,23.550987 "OSBench - Test: Create Processes", Lower Results Are Better "Default Mitigations",17.228127,17.209053,17.259121 "No Mitigations",16.720295,16.531944,16.450882