Intel Xeon Haswell Mitigation Costs Linux Tests mitigations=off: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A (3902 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 60GB Patriot Torch, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA NVE7 1GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I218-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.18.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.8, Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 mitigations=auto,nosmt: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A (3902 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 60GB Patriot Torch, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA NVE7 1GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I218-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.18.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.8, Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 mitigations=auto: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A (3902 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 60GB Patriot Torch, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA NVE7 1GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I218-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.18.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.8, Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 ctx_clock Context Switch Time Clocks < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 149 |======= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 1095 |================================================ mitigations=auto ....... 1097 |================================================ Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: System V Message Passing Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 9325577 |============================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 3854803 |=================== mitigations=auto ....... 7076692 |================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Context Switching Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 4559788 |============================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 2043135 |==================== mitigations=auto ....... 3399768 |================================== Hackbench Count: 32 - Type: Process Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 70.09 |===================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 156.01 |============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 123.99 |===================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Socket Activity Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 7984 |================================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 3833 |======================= mitigations=auto ....... 5023 |============================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 13869 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 8984 |============================== mitigations=auto ....... 13866 |=============================================== IndigoBench 4.0.64 Scene: Bedroom M samples/s > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 1.02 |================================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 0.67 |================================ mitigations=auto ....... 1.02 |================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 168518 |============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 112260 |=============================== mitigations=auto ....... 157869 |=========================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Semaphores Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 3630085 |================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 5082198 |============================================= mitigations=auto ....... 3422465 |============================== IndigoBench 4.0.64 Scene: Supercar M samples/s > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 2.38 |================================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 1.65 |================================= mitigations=auto ....... 2.38 |================================================ Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: Memory Events Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 18931194 |============================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 13157574 |=============================== mitigations=auto ....... 18958747 |============================================ OSBench Test: Launch Programs us Per Event < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 28.59 |================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 40.74 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 32.80 |====================================== XZ Compression 5.2.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 30.76 |================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 42.24 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 30.86 |================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 34413 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 25246 |================================== mitigations=auto ....... 26330 |==================================== Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: HTTP - Test: Bandwidth - Threads: 64 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 5504 |================================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 4099 |==================================== mitigations=auto ....... 5178 |============================================= Sockperf 3.4 Test: Throughput Messages Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 561057 |============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 427801 |=================================== mitigations=auto ....... 429807 |=================================== x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 62.03 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 47.33 |==================================== mitigations=auto ....... 61.47 |=============================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 6759 |================================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 5319 |====================================== mitigations=auto ....... 5245 |===================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Delete Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 122037 |============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 96407 |==================================== mitigations=auto ....... 94935 |==================================== OSBench Test: Create Files us Per Event < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 12.36 |===================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 15.75 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 15.71 |=============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 27213 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 27414 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 21655 |===================================== t-test1 2017-01-13 Threads: 2 Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 9.61 |====================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 11.74 |============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 11.97 |=============================================== OSBench Test: Create Threads us Per Event < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 13.42 |====================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 15.41 |=========================================== mitigations=auto ....... 16.65 |=============================================== Chaos Group V-RAY 4.10.03 Mode: CPU Ksamples > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 10285 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 8358 |====================================== mitigations=auto ....... 10271 |=============================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Get Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 118080 |============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 96971 |====================================== mitigations=auto ....... 96075 |===================================== NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 2.24220 |===================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 2.74109 |============================================= mitigations=auto ....... 2.24899 |===================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 40204 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 32907 |====================================== mitigations=auto ....... 39515 |============================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: ffs nanoseconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 1.71 |======================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 2.05 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 2.08 |================================================ Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Bandwidth - Threads: 64 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 160942 |============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 133093 |====================================== mitigations=auto ....... 152555 |============================================ Darktable 2.4.2 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 6.46 |======================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 7.80 |================================================ mitigations=auto ....... 6.62 |========================================= Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 556 |========================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 667 |================================================= mitigations=auto ....... 565 |========================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: pthread_once nanoseconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 1.71 |======================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 2.05 |================================================ mitigations=auto ....... 2.05 |================================================ OSBench Test: Memory Allocations Ns Per Event < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 79.31 |======================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 94.99 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 85.61 |========================================== Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 1 Microseconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 17.03 |======================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 20.24 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 20.12 |=============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 95.07 |======================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 112.61 |============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 97.56 |======================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 0.00205956 |===================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 0.00197524 |==================================== mitigations=auto ....... 0.00233209 |========================================== Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 32 Microseconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 17.33 |======================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 20.36 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 20.38 |=============================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: ffsll nanoseconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 1.97 |========================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 2.31 |================================================ mitigations=auto ....... 2.31 |================================================ GIMP 2.8.22 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 43.59 |======================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 51.03 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 49.60 |============================================== Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 19.94 |======================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 23.33 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 20.11 |========================================= Y-Cruncher 0.7.7 Calculating 500M Pi Digits Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 28.71 |======================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 33.52 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 28.70 |======================================== Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 64 Microseconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 17.76 |========================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 20.41 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 20.48 |=============================================== Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Connections/s - Threads: 1 Connections/sec > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 8823 |================================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 7677 |========================================== mitigations=auto ....... 7787 |========================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 10.46 |========================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 11.77 |============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 11.97 |=============================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 20.02 |========================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 22.61 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 22.09 |============================================== Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: HTTP - Test: Bandwidth - Threads: 1 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 567 |================================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 570 |================================================= mitigations=auto ....... 509 |============================================ GIMP 2.8.22 Test: rotate Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 23.44 |========================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 26.14 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 26.03 |=============================================== Darktable 2.4.2 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 4.93 |============================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 5.41 |================================================ mitigations=auto ....... 5.00 |============================================ Darktable 2.4.2 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 10.89 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 10.41 |============================================ mitigations=auto ....... 11.00 |=============================================== Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 13.35 |============================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 13.81 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 13.75 |=============================================== Git Time To Complete Common Git Commands Seconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 6.25 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 6.45 |================================================ mitigations=auto ....... 6.31 |=============================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 1275 |================================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 1255 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 1275 |================================================ BlogBench 1.1 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 5289 |================================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 5314 |================================================ mitigations=auto ....... 5268 |================================================ libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.3 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 153 |================================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 152 |================================================= mitigations=auto ....... 153 |================================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 565312 |============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 564930 |============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 563436 |============================================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 1230 |================================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 1231 |================================================ mitigations=auto ....... 1233 |================================================ Apache Siege 2.4.29 Concurrent Users: 250 Transactions Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=auto,nosmt . 42751 |=============================================== mitigations=auto ....... 31750 |=================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Replace Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 55432 |============================================ mitigations=auto,nosmt . 48603 |======================================= mitigations=auto ....... 58599 |=============================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Prepend Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 54633 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 48614 |========================================== mitigations=auto ....... 54266 |=============================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Append Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 53997 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 48752 |========================================== mitigations=auto ....... 51707 |============================================= Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Set Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 61553 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 53387 |========================================= mitigations=auto ....... 46825 |==================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Add Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 57963 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 54002 |============================================ mitigations=auto ....... 47515 |======================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 1683548 |============================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 1646553 |============================================ mitigations=auto ....... 1600933 |=========================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 2214385 |============================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 2184999 |============================================ mitigations=auto ....... 2087360 |========================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: LPUSH Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 1487297 |=========================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 1562523 |============================================= mitigations=auto ....... 1507584 |=========================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: SADD Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 1983532 |============================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 1957163 |============================================ mitigations=auto ....... 1874816 |=========================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: LPOP Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 2295251 |============================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 1570796 |=============================== mitigations=auto ....... 1467283 |============================= Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: UDP - Test: Bandwidth - Threads: 64 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 276989 |============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 218244 |==================================== mitigations=auto ....... 273250 |============================================= Sockperf 3.4 Test: Latency Under Load usec < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 23.35 |============================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 19.26 |===================================== mitigations=auto ....... 24.59 |=============================================== Sockperf 3.4 Test: Latency Ping Pong usec < Lower Is Better mitigations=off ........ 3.86 |======================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 4.16 |============================================ mitigations=auto ....... 4.58 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 377 |================================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 328 |=========================================== mitigations=auto ....... 334 |=========================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 705 |================================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 648 |============================================= mitigations=auto ....... 694 |================================================ BlogBench 1.1 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 1872460 |============================================= mitigations=auto,nosmt . 1244210 |============================== mitigations=auto ....... 1653305 |======================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 66.08 |=============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 63.83 |============================================= mitigations=auto ....... 66.27 |=============================================== Geometric Mean Of All Test Results Result Composite - Intel Xeon Haswell Mitigation Costs Linux Geometric Mean > Higher Is Better mitigations=off ........ 808.31 |============================================== mitigations=auto,nosmt . 656.21 |===================================== mitigations=auto ....... 707.01 |========================================