Zombieload TAA Benchmark Impact

Zombieload TSX TAA mitigation impact on Linux. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article.

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TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation
November 12 2019
  5 Hours, 10 Minutes
TSX Enabled - Vulnerable
November 13 2019
  4 Hours, 43 Minutes
TSX Disabled
November 13 2019
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Zombieload TAA Benchmark Impact, "ctx_clock - Context Switch Time", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",444,450,446 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",134,136,136 "TSX Disabled",136,132,134 "IOR 3.2.1 - Read Test", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",1921.16,1724.34,1731.99,1816.13,1723.8,1754.1,1712.44,1950.82,1729.54,1760.18,1760.21,1919.33,1761.77,1786.42,1740.74 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",1870.73,2003.41,1856.85,1898.13,1848.45,1859.15,1880.53,1897.72,1841.57,1822.1,1888.61,1881.84 "TSX Disabled",2199.8,1937.31,1957.13,1969.73,1945.35,2078.92,1944.98,1927.52,2046.64,1959.58,1964.77,1958.69,1941.85,2176.16,1937.15 "Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6 - Test: Random Fill", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",176298,175836,176113 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",194650,195278,193702 "TSX Disabled",195662,195641,195300 "Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6 - Test: Sequential Fill", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",176858,176439,177121 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",194709,195872,195211 "TSX Disabled",195926,195310,195649 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 - Operation: Resizing", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",1136,991,950,976,1015,1000,1096,1060,1077,934,987,1058,1006,993,942 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",1129,1079,1106 "TSX Disabled",1231,1139,1110,1091,1141,1000,1054,1107,1089,1134,1178,1165,1186,1070,1068 "SQLite Speedtest 3.30 - Timed Time - Size 1,000", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",70.64,70.603,70.568 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",66.136,66.103,66.117 "TSX Disabled",64.735,65.023,64.7 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Glibc C String Functions", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",3884556.56,3944773.06,3643360.84,3982238.73,3603713.15,3720436.95,3545466.64,3977997.45,3897552.55,3999176.9,3924243.49,3920680.02,3543461.26,3650802.78,3603014.77 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",3948010.84,3944969.89,3879446.84 "TSX Disabled",3546697.24,3729623.6,3578276.73 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 - Operation: HWB Color Space", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",738,723,711 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",747,790,743,803,741,740,739,741,801,783,739,800,773,780,780 "TSX Disabled",742,743,838,745,836,744,765,748,742,842,823,746,815,741,837 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: System V Message Passing", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",7740083.29,7706821.6,7800764.53 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",8280529.49,8213020.32,8474675.26 "TSX Disabled",7917801.2,8110354.77,7867593.15 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Socket Activity", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",29143.46,30884.87,30481.07,30216.25 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",30467.81,33236.3,33260.34,32018.39,33000.66,32718.25,32044.71,32468.49 "TSX Disabled",30984.6,33318.08,32353.11,32493.92 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 - Operation: Rotate", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",571,570,555 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",600,606,586 "TSX Disabled", "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: ffs", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",1.79249,1.79222,1.79188,1.79239,1.79166,1.79196,1.79013,1.79059,1.79265,1.79178,1.79245,1.79269 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",1.67228,1.67232,1.67176,1.67269,1.67304,1.67325,1.67215,1.67061,1.67233,1.67301,1.6725,1.67206 "TSX Disabled",1.67099,1.67006,1.6709,1.67077,1.66997,1.67018,1.66994,1.6725,1.67083,1.67061,1.67082,1.67055,1.67021,1.67027,1.67497 "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: ffsll", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",1.79057,1.78918,1.79001,1.78853,1.79099,1.78869,1.7921,1.7897,1.79001,1.79043,1.79298,1.79065 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",1.67244,1.67129,1.67195,1.67098,1.6707,1.67227,1.67294,1.67172,1.67106,1.67065,1.67082,1.67155,1.67156,1.67217,1.67088 "TSX Disabled",1.67218,1.67222,1.67163,1.67248,1.67249,1.67245,1.67234,1.67511 "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: pthread_once", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",1.79684,1.79567,1.79835 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",1.68007,1.68094,1.67901,1.67984,1.67815,1.67984,1.67877,1.67963,1.68092,1.67981,1.67633,1.6798,1.67817,1.68086,1.67887 "TSX Disabled",1.68126,1.68041,1.68081,1.67888,1.681,1.68119,1.68044,1.68093,1.67608,1.6782,1.68033,1.68153 "Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",23899.18,23855.41,23847.45 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",24842.85,24460.92,24632.2 "TSX Disabled",25828.92,25246.15,25187.46 "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: sqrt", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",2.0426,2.04706,2.04415 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",1.92215,1.92359,1.92358 "TSX Disabled",1.9229,1.9223,1.92405 "OSBench - Test: Create Files", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",14.745982,14.742682,14.834984 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",14.244559,14.2367,14.259391 "TSX Disabled",13.929457,13.948989,13.957048 "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: modf", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",2.29951,2.30124,2.30329,2.30213,2.30204,2.30266,2.303,2.30151,2.30394,2.3053,2.30591,2.30113,2.29835,2.30085,2.30248 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",2.18287,2.18095,2.1809,2.17937,2.18337,2.18113,2.18387,2.18032,2.18272,2.17839,2.18062,2.1805,2.18107,2.18593 "TSX Disabled",2.18248,2.18438,2.18143 "NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",30326.22,29785.7,29576.53 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",33363,33716.81,31152.24,30991.43,31092.27,31059.3,31012.02,30973.98,30898.23,30988.8,30959.93,30979.64,30877.31,31038.03 "TSX Disabled",31631.94,31458.53,31423.88 "Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 - Method: Get", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",104116.1,102899.5,103734.8 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",107823.7,107610.5,109611.9 "TSX Disabled",110322.1,105641.4,111159.3 "OSBench - Test: Create Threads", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",21.390915,21.607876,21.221638 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",20.589828,20.458698,20.549297 "TSX Disabled",20.360947,20.38002,20.370483 "Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 - Method: Add", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",59792.4,61004.3,60367.9 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",62756.7,62894.7,61702.1 "TSX Disabled",62206.1,63703.1,63527.4 "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: exp", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",5.72042,5.76934,6.03748 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",5.68443,5.61817,5.59135 "TSX Disabled",5.60952,5.60581,5.60509 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 - Operation: Noise-Gaussian", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation", "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",465,477,472 "TSX Disabled",453,489,492,473,461,469,457,485,456,479,491,468,464 "Timed GCC Compilation 8.2 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",936.769,941.041,937.505 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",903.702,902.778,899.147 "TSX Disabled",902.793,903.306,900.217 "Renaissance 0.9.0 - Test: In-Memory Database Shootout", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",18377.576,17012.022,18611.474,17631.847,16928.368,17336.449,16941.271,18194.722,15771.15,17212.579,17770.627,18200.383,17061.74,17899.043,16473.093,16801.758,18587.692,17592.152,18084.731,17567.636,17482.275,18204.48,16576.997,17005.607,16980.341,16983.378,17920.098,17026.482,17215.337,17285.279,17738.457,17974.241,17346.476,17421.5,17989.178,17994.499,17583.568,17345.647,17590.805,16115.874 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",17281.601,17047.787,16676.932,18228.712,17068.132,17056.877,17269.931,17347.438 "TSX Disabled",16731.474,16834.459,15830.108,17133.854,16764.432,16755.208,17384.51,17033.199 "SVT-VP9 0.1 - Tuning: VMAF Optimized - Input: Bosphorus 1080p", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",242.13,258.4,248.65,259.07,251.68 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",242.82,258.51,261.55,268.7,264.78,265.13,263.16,255.97,251.78,262.24 "TSX Disabled",246.71,250.73,253.27 "Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 - Method: Set", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",62021.7,60004.8,61040 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",62309.2,62745.5,62691.6 "TSX Disabled",63099.7,63676.9,62795.7 "PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Only", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",888011.700666,896525.502296,886115.542763 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",922832.453462,920335.74149,921478.050522 "TSX Disabled",912186.702918,891597.632484,886639.951764 "Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation", "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable", "TSX Disabled", "OSBench - Test: Create Processes", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",47.938824,47.459602,45.409203 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",45.149326,46.410561,46.93985 "TSX Disabled",45.289993,44.867992,46.041012 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 - Test / Class: FT.C", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",46323.1,46299.09,47450.64 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",47947.95,48261.82,48020.05 "TSX Disabled",48339.24,48248.02,48207.21 "OSBench - Test: Memory Allocations", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",91.24589,91.540098,90.562105 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",89.993954,90.088844,90.41214 "TSX Disabled",88.317156,88.70101,88.320017 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Semaphores", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",2172597.77,2137111.88,2044777.01,2097807.91 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",2230291.96,2165134.03,2111142.61 "TSX Disabled",2151386.68,2083646.9,2132638.81 "PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",23310.321252,23464.824663,23417.591887 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",23893.569678,23854.834577,23937.376167 "TSX Disabled",24083.615338,23966.640727,23942.62701 "PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",23552.042394,23411.472067,23386.128035 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",23929.236093,23898.454992,23734.73988 "TSX Disabled",24068.575638,23969.715456,23943.659908 "Go Benchmarks - Test: build", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",29347642519,29349420508,29424526505 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",28850152303,28938165165,28844435098 "TSX Disabled",28729360901,28769659348,28700591263 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 5.4 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",28.938,25.068,25.142,25.137,25.197,25.221,25.055,25.149,25.194,25.224,25.116,25.08,25.371 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",28.243,24.576,24.567,24.706,24.691,24.545,24.535,24.724,24.802,26.519,24.692,24.593,24.795,24.517,24.603 "TSX Disabled",28.168,24.631,24.732,24.563,24.707,24.593,24.519,24.537,24.676,24.692,24.717,24.588,24.805,24.686 "ACES DGEMM 1.0 - Sustained Floating-Point Rate", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",19.56425,18.816704,20.204544,19.241434,19.597422 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",19.831686,20.424728,19.170083,20.192358 "TSX Disabled",19.546768,19.807653,20.167684 "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: tanh", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",13.886,13.4389,13.4457 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",13.3276,13.3276,13.328,13.3231 "TSX Disabled",13.3281,13.32,13.3036 "PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",885791.640281,886800.47455,894753.134337 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",914457.123223,910321.612567,885634.380676 "TSX Disabled",907951.184888,912611.907728,899546.561765 "SVT-VP9 0.1 - Tuning: PSNR/SSIM Optimized - Input: Bosphorus 1080p", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",248.45,251.36,265.25,254.67 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",249.9,264.43,261.55 "TSX Disabled",256.52,259.18,258.29 "MariaDB 10.3.8 - Clients: 256", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",437.82837127846,438.59649122807,438.78894251865 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",440.91710758377,441.30626654898,442.0866489832 "TSX Disabled",440.3346543373,445.0378282154,441.69611307421 "Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",45.766,55.2,48.894,53.122,51.268,46.407,50.705,51.962,57.241,55.837,53.584,49.561,54.765,47.598,44.779 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",49.906,40.721,48.981,47.376,45.344,40.363,43.711,45.864,51.11,51.305,43.918,49.3,42.649,42.999,53.267 "TSX Disabled",44.073,43.311,44.463 "Redis 5.0.5 - Test: SET", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",1538461.62,1503759.38,1703577.5,1718213,1589825.12,1798561.12,1766784.5,1792114.62,1926782.25,1582278.38,1745200.62,1730103.75,1618123,1555209.88,1904762 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",1776198.88,1745200.62,1845018.5 "TSX Disabled",1745200.62,1631321.38,1655629.25,1828153.62,1692047.38,1652892.5,1642036,1631321.38,1801801.75,1703577.5,1855287.62,1763668.5,1821493.5,1644736.88,1675041.88 "Memtier_benchmark 1.2.17 - Protocol: Redis", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",4658081.73,3249630.97,2694296.04,3296969.85,3237962.48,3336470.37,4531746.55,3328472.2,3236559.79,3258764.56,4422224.37,4311476.05,2673878.6,4342820.79,4436490.8 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",4531044.51,4484883.23,4472322.44 "TSX Disabled",3258790.91,4419302.22,4299200.67,3241853.28,4431361.66,3146485.8,4530006.67,3310105.25,3257119.02,3230776.11,3253309.53,4527732,4388714.92 "GNU Octave Benchmark 4.4.1 - ", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",26.789,23.388,25.271,26.082,24.035,24.057,21.12,20.71,21.407,22.569,23.454,24.896,21.181,25.262,20.786 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",20.536,20.157,19.887 "TSX Disabled",21.449,21.323,21.23 "Renaissance 0.9.0 - Test: Savina Reactors.IO", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",24262.244,31554.403,28472.582,26859.841,31653.751,27069.031,28597.684,29202.092,25769.562,26869.856,30890.56,24701.234,27771.324,27336.615,24107.731,25902.156,27222.952,28637.379,27554.17,31168.518,26099.602,28651.297,24878.801,26591.377,28458.554,26545.97,27420.824,25966.386,28840.852,28344.878,26416.727,32127.479,27558.311,30108.286,28908.9,28820.553,37275.866,30380.029,31178.968,26163.001 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",31056.066,23656.359,26475.138,22730.245,27278.635,28463.444,24675.925,26392.477,24924.44,29988.672,31520.252,26858.538,24689.054,25372.078,25910.224,24862.155,30628.757,28573.912,30121.144,23434.556,30090.831,24969.167,20977.312,25628.001,27729.01,25464.681,25755.163,31994.449,29233.686,25183.933,30045.612,28593.755,23887.34,27313.113,25894.049,28492.744,28631.971,23857.16,28512.154,23360.562 "TSX Disabled",23101.701,28382.58,26853.774,24386.572,22678.085,32694.084,22267.26,26446.209,25025.921,23180.04,22445.554,25837.34,28588.17,25463.726,26725.677,25673.357,32884.569,30915.155,28581.216,30339.023,24577.557,27968.471,29370.804,24976.558,27845.044,28111.195,23393.486,32223.799,29289.116,29050.121,26804.836,24244.262,22408.501,32036.039,28889.46,25022.478,33160.968,24692.928,29956.525,27510.271 "DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 - Java Test: Tradesoap", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",7877,8293,7839,7825 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",7367,7379,7739,8204,7548,7999,8239,7709,6886,7298,7265,7506,6862,6971,7154,6901,7257,7381,6570,7401 "TSX Disabled",7452,7483,7734,8154,6878,7075,7796,7547,6803,7543,6865,7210,6563,7047,7061,7070,7574,7557,7025,6562 "IOR 3.2.1 - Write Test", Higher Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",1227.03,1086.85,1113.03,1116.72,1085.31,1103.28,1065.55,1218.32,1224.11,1233.64,1254.4,1389.47,1221.19,1272.18,1106.46 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",1168.46,1356.67,1247.39,1297.84,1257.39,1267.17,1285.15,1295.23,1258.23,1269.26,1290.69,1313.82 "TSX Disabled",1632.92,1171.95,1283.27,1241.61,1196.26,1378.82,1246.89,1217.23,1363.64,1350.36,1412.31,1397.49,1370.55,1637.21,1366.78 "SQLite 3.30.1 - Threads / Copies: 64", Lower Results Are Better "TSX Enabled - Default Mitigation",23.373,24.365,21.223,22.346,22.66,20.782,21.391,22.402,21.938,23.023,21.741,19.798,19.991,19.905,20.435 "TSX Enabled - Vulnerable",18.184,17.515,17.49 "TSX Disabled",18.561,18.492,18.541