Intel Ivy Bridge Spectre and Meltdown Mitigation Performance
Intel Core i5-3570 testing with a ASUS P8Z77-V (2104 BIOS) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB on openSUSE 15.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Ubuntu - mitigations=off: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V (2104 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 480GB GOODRAM + 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 480GB Patriot Burst + 256GB SSDPR-CX400-256 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EFRX-68P + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM010-2EP1 + 128GB SanDisk SDSSDHP1 + 8GB Flash Disk, Graphics: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (139/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: LG ULTRAWIDE, Network: Intel 82579V + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 5.0.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 440.26, Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1080

Ubuntu - mitigations=auto: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V (2104 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 480GB GOODRAM + 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 480GB Patriot Burst + 256GB SSDPR-CX400-256 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EFRX-68P + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM010-2EP1 + 128GB SanDisk SDSSDHP1 + 8GB Flash Disk, Graphics: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (772/810MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: LG ULTRAWIDE, Network: Intel 82579V + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 5.0.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 440.26, Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1080

openSUSE - mitigations=off: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V (2104 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 480GB GOODRAM + 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 480GB Patriot Burst + 256GB SSDPR-CX400-256 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EFRX-68P + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM010-2EP1 + 128GB SanDisk SDSSDHP1 + 8GB Flash Disk, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (1518/4006MHz), Audio: Intel 7 /C216, Monitor: LG ULTRAWIDE, Network: Intel 82579V + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485

	OS: openSUSE 15.1, Kernel: 4.12.14-lp151.28.32-default (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.2, Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 440.31, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 7.4.1 20190905 [gcc-7-branch revision 275407], File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1080

openSUSE - mitigations=auto: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V (2104 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 480GB GOODRAM + 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 480GB Patriot Burst + 256GB SSDPR-CX400-256 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EFRX-68P + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM010-2EP1 + 128GB SanDisk SDSSDHP1 + 8GB Flash Disk, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (1518/4006MHz), Audio: Intel 7 /C216, Monitor: LG ULTRAWIDE, Network: Intel 82579V + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485

	OS: openSUSE 15.1, Kernel: 4.12.14-lp151.28.32-default (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.2, Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 440.31, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 7.4.1 20190905 [gcc-7-branch revision 275407], File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1080


ctx_clock
Context Switch Time
Clocks < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu - mitigations=off .... 150 |=======
Ubuntu - mitigations=auto ... 952 |============================================
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 150 |=======
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 950 |============================================


Flexible IO Tester 3.16
Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory
MB/s > Higher Is Better
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 381 |============================================
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 383 |============================================


Flexible IO Tester 3.16
Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory
IOPS > Higher Is Better
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 97433 |==========================================
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 98067 |==========================================


Flexible IO Tester 3.16
Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory
MB/s > Higher Is Better
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 275 |============================================
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 259 |=========================================


Flexible IO Tester 3.16
Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory
IOPS > Higher Is Better
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 70160 |==========================================
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 66227 |========================================


Sockperf 3.4
Test: Throughput
Messages Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu - mitigations=off .... 387212 |=========================================
Ubuntu - mitigations=auto ... 323696 |==================================
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 332823 |===================================
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 273369 |=============================


Sockperf 3.4
Test: Latency Ping Pong
usec < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu - mitigations=off .... 4.57 |======================================
Ubuntu - mitigations=auto ... 4.78 |=======================================
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 4.20 |===================================
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 5.21 |===========================================


Sockperf 3.4
Test: Latency Under Load
usec < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu - mitigations=off .... 21.50 |=========================================
Ubuntu - mitigations=auto ... 21.92 |==========================================
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 19.42 |=====================================
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 21.93 |==========================================


Stress-NG 0.07.26
Test: Crypto
Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu - mitigations=off .... 805.99 |=========================================
Ubuntu - mitigations=auto ... 798.86 |=========================================
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 755.46 |======================================
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 754.67 |======================================


Stress-NG 0.07.26
Test: Forking
Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu - mitigations=off .... 32938.65 |=======================================
Ubuntu - mitigations=auto ... 29295.62 |===================================
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 28677.83 |==================================
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 24598.07 |=============================


Stress-NG 0.07.26
Test: CPU Stress
Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu - mitigations=off .... 1189.35 |======================================
Ubuntu - mitigations=auto ... 1188.40 |======================================
openSUSE - mitigations=off .. 1259.88 |========================================
openSUSE - mitigations=auto . 1257.20 |========================================