Zombieload TAA Benchmark Impact
Zombieload TSX TAA mitigation impact on Linux. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article.
TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0x500002c
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.5-ea+10-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.17rc1 + Python 3.7.5rc1
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: KVM: Mitigation of Split huge pages + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Mitigation of Clear buffers; SMT vulnerable
TSX Enabled - Vulnerable
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0x500002c
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.5-ea+10-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.17rc1 + Python 3.7.5rc1
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: KVM: Mitigation of Split huge pages + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Vulnerable
TSX Disabled
Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 @ 4.00GHz (56 Cores / 112 Threads), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 (T15 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 386048MB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: ASPEED, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel X722 for 1GbE + 2 x QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 10/25/40/50GbE
OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.4.0-rc7-12nov-vulns (x86_64) 20191112, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.5, Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0x500002c
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.5-ea+10-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.17rc1 + Python 3.7.5rc1
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: KVM: Mitigation of Split huge pages + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Mitigation of TSX disabled
ACES DGEMM
This is a multi-threaded DGEMM benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Apache Benchmark
This is a test of ab, which is the Apache benchmark program. This test profile measures how many requests per second a given system can sustain when carrying out 1,000,000 requests with 100 requests being carried out concurrently. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
ctx_clock
Ctx_clock is a simple test program to measure the context switch time in clock cycles. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
DaCapo Benchmark
This test runs the DaCapo Benchmarks written in Java and intended to test system/CPU performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Facebook RocksDB
This is a benchmark of Facebook's RocksDB as an embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage based on Google's LevelDB. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
glibc bench
The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system and GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel. These libraries provide critical APIs including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, BSD, OS-specific APIs and more. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GNU Octave Benchmark
This test profile measures how long it takes to complete several reference GNU Octave files via octave-benchmark. GNU Octave is used for numerical computations and is an open-source alternative to MATLAB. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Go Benchmarks
Benchmark for monitoring real time performance of the Go implementation for HTTP, JSON and garbage testing per iteration. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GraphicsMagick
This is a test of GraphicsMagick with its OpenMP implementation that performs various imaging tests on a sample 6000x4000 pixel JPEG image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Hackbench
This is a benchmark of Hackbench, a test of the Linux kernel scheduler. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
IOR
IOR is a parallel I/O storage benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
MariaDB
This is a MariaDB MySQL database server benchmark making use of mysqlslap. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Memcached mcperf
This is a test of twmperf/mcperf with memcached. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Memtier_benchmark
Memtier_benchmark is a NoSQL Redis/Memcache traffic generation plus benchmarking tool. This current test profile currently just stresses the Redis protocol and basic options exposed wotj a 1:1 Set/Get ratio, 30 pipeline, 100 clients per thread, and thread count equal to the number of CPU cores/threads present. Patches to extend the test are welcome as always. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
NPB, NAS Parallel Benchmarks, is a benchmark developed by NASA for high-end computer systems. This test profile currently uses the MPI version of NPB. This test profile offers selecting the different NPB tests/problems and varying problem sizes. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NGINX Benchmark
This is a test of ab, which is the Apache Benchmark program running against nginx. This test profile measures how many requests per second a given system can sustain when carrying out 2,000,000 requests with 500 requests being carried out concurrently. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OSBench
OSBench is a collection of micro-benchmarks for measuring operating system primitives like time to create threads/processes, launching programs, creating files, and memory allocation. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PostgreSQL pgbench
This is a simple benchmark of PostgreSQL using pgbench. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Redis
Redis is an open-source data structure server. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Renaissance
Renaissance is a suite of benchmarks designed to test the Java JVM from Apache Spark to a Twitter-like service to Scala and other features. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
SQLite
This is a simple benchmark of SQLite. At present this test profile just measures the time to perform a pre-defined number of insertions on an indexed database. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
SQLite Speedtest
This is a benchmark of SQLite's speedtest1 benchmark program with an increased problem size of 1,000. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Stress-NG
Stress-NG is a Linux stress tool developed by Colin King of Canonical. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
SVT-VP9
This is a test of the Intel Open Visual Cloud Scalable Video Technology SVT-VP9 CPU-based multi-threaded video encoder for the VP9 video format with a sample 1080p YUV video file. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed GCC Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build the Linux kernel in a default configuration. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed LLVM Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build the LLVM compiler. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0x500002c
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.5-ea+10-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.17rc1 + Python 3.7.5rc1
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: KVM: Mitigation of Split huge pages + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Mitigation of Clear buffers; SMT vulnerable
Testing initiated at 12 November 2019 17:28 by user phoronix.
TSX Enabled - Vulnerable
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0x500002c
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.5-ea+10-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.17rc1 + Python 3.7.5rc1
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: KVM: Mitigation of Split huge pages + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Vulnerable
Testing initiated at 13 November 2019 07:26 by user phoronix.
TSX Disabled
Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 @ 4.00GHz (56 Cores / 112 Threads), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 (T15 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 386048MB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: ASPEED, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel X722 for 1GbE + 2 x QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 10/25/40/50GbE
OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.4.0-rc7-12nov-vulns (x86_64) 20191112, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.5, Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0x500002c
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.5-ea+10-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.17rc1 + Python 3.7.5rc1
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: KVM: Mitigation of Split huge pages + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Mitigation of TSX disabled
Testing initiated at 13 November 2019 20:08 by user phoronix.