Linux 5.6 Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 x2, "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",989,1024,993 "Linux 5.6-rc1", "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",491,508,493 "Linux 5.6-rc1", "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",238,232,232 "Linux 5.6-rc1",238,236,249 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",60000,60000,59300,59300,59500,59500 "Linux 5.6-rc1",60000,60000,60300,60300,63700,63700 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",892,886,883 "Linux 5.6-rc1",918,929,909 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",442,439,438 "Linux 5.6-rc1",455,461,451 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",807,813,816 "Linux 5.6-rc1",819,815,820 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",206000,206000,208000,208000,209000,209000 "Linux 5.6-rc1",210000,210000,209000,209000,210000,210000 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",1915,1895,1872 "Linux 5.6-rc1",1906,1794,1899,1899 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",954,944,932 "Linux 5.6-rc1",949,893,946,946 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",1723,1587,1585,1754,1722,1741,1732,1726,1697,1693,1597,1726,1594,1604,1729 "Linux 5.6-rc1",1762,1729,1760 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",441000,441000,406000,406000,406000,406000,449000,449000,441000,441000,446000,446000,443000,443000,442000,442000,434000,434000,433000,433000,409000,409000,442000,442000,408000,408000,411000,411000,443000,443000 "Linux 5.6-rc1",451000,451000,443000,443000,450000,450000 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",886,880,915 "Linux 5.6-rc1",897,892,900 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",439,436,454 "Linux 5.6-rc1", "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",825,817,817 "Linux 5.6-rc1",835,846,818 "Flexible IO Tester 3.16 - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",211000,211000,209000,209000,209000,209000 "Linux 5.6-rc1",214000,214000,217000,217000,210000,210000 "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",5952,5813,5952 "Linux 5.6-rc1", "Ethr 2019-01-02 - Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 1", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",24.041439205955,19.303263473054,25.70753968254,20.011645962733,21.934353741497,24.654005102041,21.130601750547,21.644804469274,18.320979087452,24.787537878788,20.381506849315,23.356128640777,19.037224409449,19.84287037037,19.500404040404 "Linux 5.6-rc1",19.415005035247,23.058273809524,23.862755227552,18.808975609756,19.807368961973,18.531623439001,20.080697190427,27.040433566434,19.223243512974,18.786198830409,20.528117021277,18.863535749265,18.397936962751,18.513653846154,25.469934469201 "Ethr 2019-01-02 - Server Address: localhost - Protocol: HTTP - Test: Bandwidth - Threads: 1", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",401.999375,401999375000,409.008125,409008125000,417.528125,417528125000,452.9275,452927500000,452.855625,452855625000,448.806875,448806875000,434.75125,434751250000,446.879375,446879375000 "Linux 5.6-rc1",420.55875,420558750000,451.128125,451128125000,453.89625,453896250000,436.070625,436070625000,450.384375,450384375000,413.175625,413175625000,402.375,402375000000,450.00875,450008750000 "Ethr 2019-01-02 - Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Connections/s - Threads: 1", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",5890,6250,6160,6050 "Linux 5.6-rc1",6230,6020,6150 "iPerf 3.7 - Server Address: localhost - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 30 Seconds - Test: UDP - 1000Mbit Objective - Parallel: 20", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5", "Linux 5.6-rc1",19998,19999,19999 "iPerf 3.7 - Server Address: localhost - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 30 Seconds - Test: TCP - Parallel: 20", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",32627,32489,32326 "Linux 5.6-rc1",32658,32383,32326 "iPerf 3.7 - Server Address: localhost - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 30 Seconds - Test: UDP - Parallel: 20", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",21,21,21.1 "Linux 5.6-rc1", "High Performance Conjugate Gradient 3.1 - ", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",29.2529,28.9683,28.9723 "Linux 5.6-rc1",29.4685,28.8613,28.7588 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 - Test / Class: BT.C", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",136049,136848.37,137158.54 "Linux 5.6-rc1",135951.51,136708.02,135948.19 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 - Test / Class: EP.D", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",6658.62,6642.91,6384.28 "Linux 5.6-rc1",6589.69,6753.36,6461.92 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 - Test / Class: FT.C", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",48120.26,48277.93,47891.57 "Linux 5.6-rc1",47907.06,47894.92,47915.59 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 - Test / Class: LU.C", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",139135.12,139351.45,139369.07 "Linux 5.6-rc1",139841.91,139977.63,139295.16 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 - Test / Class: MG.C", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",69664.34,69165.3,66933.35 "Linux 5.6-rc1",67188.54,70264.78,67881.43 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 - Test / Class: SP.B", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",71051.85,70967.51,70880.41 "Linux 5.6-rc1",70285.56,70788.56,70660.12 "NAMD 2.13b1 - ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",0.359958,0.361763,0.361295,0.361675,0.367713 "Linux 5.6-rc1",0.359883,0.361212,0.361717,0.361381,0.361026,0.360751,0.362187,0.361411,0.361336,0.360706,0.363044,0.361984,0.36539,0.361503,0.361936 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 9Jan2020 - Model: Rhodopsin Protein", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",25.833,25.797,25.286 "Linux 5.6-rc1",24.906,24.807,24.226 "DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 - Java Test: Jython", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",4688,4699,4646,4659 "Linux 5.6-rc1",4838,4905,4825,4764 "DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 - Java Test: Tradebeans", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",14414,14229,14526,13685 "Linux 5.6-rc1",13662,13856,14516,13361,13344,13139,12565,13572,14548,13815,13912,13757,14075,14445,12994,14016,14643,13124,14761,14098 "Renaissance 0.9.0 - Test: Savina Reactors.IO", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",26855.967,31303.163,24885.942,29429.32,28276.578,25740.891,25983.439,28124.726,24442.159,28762.687,26081.045,26117.871,26328.951,32354.662,28117.543,29013.892,26665.748,25971.78,25190.9,26132.805,32036.517,25020.278,29295.717,27396.671,27421.786,27233.415,25807.573,32257.095,26265.948,25926.832,29987.268,26760.115,27381.406,27395.939,29421.477,29816.316,29724.734,30196.413,27293.215,29610.31 "Linux 5.6-rc1",28977.029,26298.768,26277.675,25668.333,28698.93,26240.85,32391.538,28109.621,28036.332,29641.958,30697.942,24243.676,29996.37,30581.519,34261.792,32157.225,26302.836,28050.795,24557.909,26472.472,26206.442,26827.746,24896.68,30017.248,28077.076,31404.747,29059.795,28858.036,29822.879,26614.291,27565.274,29857.282,31872.94,26890.814,29490.882,29032.097,29843.441,30641.39,28688.148,26332.35 "Renaissance 0.9.0 - Test: In-Memory Database Shootout", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",18180.414,18182.803,18171.774,17187.798,17398.631,17985.853,18047.419,18094.714 "Linux 5.6-rc1",17175.43,18610.785,17155.401,17324.769,18259.128,17881.995,16517.899,16228.297,18404.139,16907.085,18532.415,17781.421,17634.773,17887.864,17721.921,17953.391,17366.438,17886.224,18262.492,17699.768,17094.86,17280.694,17448.795,18263.992,18087.62,17324.237,17188.531,17255.599,17042.743,18850.608,18459.821,16647.748,18336.345,19686.003,18655.163,18745.767,18350.662,18860.163,17912.602,18466.803 "Renaissance 0.9.0 - Test: Akka Unbalanced Cobwebbed Tree", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",22214.442,22668.546,23255.382,24875.279,23398.03,22681.341,21942.417,22057.102,23271.702,21492.243,21952.378,21788.741,22341.002,22539.748,35245.909,19892.652,22090.419,24791.602,36152.128,23511.662,22088.453,22191.616,24227.35,22770.643,21645.618,21452.794,22431.58,22501.631,24604.67,22364.964,23092.46,44259.042 "Linux 5.6-rc1",21211.456,22685.905,23133.632,22484.511,24458.067,22113.136,22837.899,21430.473,23053.568,21855.639,23357.187,22741.737,20898.483,22875.673,22223.789,23364.726,23356.451,23085.675,21338.777,22291.236,22316.488,21561.271,24017.22,24747.685,22412.247,21138.247,23497.411,21649.752,21437.333,23057.864,21961.943,22187.409,21954.361,22222.399,22439.03,23198.874,22736.346,23286.908,24337.853,22712.103 "John The Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 - Test: Blowfish", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",84302,84268,83300 "Linux 5.6-rc1",85752,84475,84979 "John The Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 - Test: MD5", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",8158000,8146000,8137000 "Linux 5.6-rc1",8137000,8134000,8080000 "dav1d 0.5.0 - Video Input: Summer Nature 4K", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",202.02306776297,201.40329458463,202.63625460732 "Linux 5.6-rc1",205.16220867593,202.70786504111,198.74131273037 "dav1d 0.5.0 - Video Input: Chimera 1080p 10-bit", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",66.702681001944,66.527573781744,66.077695035461 "Linux 5.6-rc1",66.735478668649,66.494528193983,66.741943268901 "SVT-AV1 0.8 - Encoder Mode: Enc Mode 8 - Input: 1080p", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",56.497,55.22,55.049 "Linux 5.6-rc1",57.992,55.633,55.642 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",3506.906353,3501.737274,3490.822251 "Linux 5.6-rc1",3528.675167,3509.108079,3527.293579 "Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.41 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",24.94,24.99,25.101 "Linux 5.6-rc1",24.721,24.947,24.655 "Timed FFmpeg Compilation 4.2.2 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",22.594,22.738,22.475 "Linux 5.6-rc1",22.434,22.537,22.743 "Timed GDB GNU Debugger Compilation 9.1 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",131.598,131.179,131.525 "Linux 5.6-rc1",130.891,130.452,130.785 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 5.4 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",27.109,24.126,23.923,24.116,24.172,24.127,24.017,23.977,23.949,24.071,23.999,23.942,24.134 "Linux 5.6-rc1",27.118,23.878,24.046,23.92,24.09,23.897,23.915,24.046,24.077,24.032,24.045,23.989,23.976 "Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5", "Linux 5.6-rc1", "Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.4 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",11.463,11.643,11.773 "Linux 5.6-rc1",11.496,11.489,11.496 "Timed PHP Compilation 7.4.2 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",41.047,40.62,41.43 "Linux 5.6-rc1",40.484,41.061,40.927 "Build2 0.12 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",58.254,58.586,58.729 "Linux 5.6-rc1",57.731,57.969,58.054 "rays1bench 2020-01-09 - Large Scene", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",254.13,255.05,253.26 "Linux 5.6-rc1",255.04,255.16,254.12 "Numpy Benchmark - ", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",315.46,309,311.93 "Linux 5.6-rc1",318.94,319.98,322.07 "DeepSpeech 0.6 - Acceleration: CPU", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",118.41815,123.05758,131.90162,157.60548,166.67925,129.94246,169.81079,136.36231,134.10222 "Linux 5.6-rc1",136.861,150.9374,151.18587,151.26926,154.57446,158.66451,159.74423,158.83779,148.44494,145.07415,161.57675,156.38603 "Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",39.871,39.832,40.288 "Linux 5.6-rc1",36.426,36.119,36.378 "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: cos", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",48.193,48.153,48.3051 "Linux 5.6-rc1",64.3645,48.1981,48.1671,48.1617,48.173,48.1902,48.1988,48.7623,48.1699,48.1713,48.1685,48.1949,48.6043,48.4513 "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: ffs", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",1.6819,1.68135,1.68437 "Linux 5.6-rc1",1.67474,1.68076,1.68192 "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: log2", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",7.74739,7.76641,7.76264 "Linux 5.6-rc1",7.70108,7.73559,7.74847 "glibc bench 1.0 - Benchmark: pthread_once", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",1.69412,1.68756,1.6982 "Linux 5.6-rc1",1.69221,1.70213,1.69822 "MariaDB 10.3.8 - Clients: 256", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",457.87545787546,455.37340619308,460.40515653775 "Linux 5.6-rc1",459.55882352941,458.92611289582,460.19328117809 "PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",585146.040835,596845.953702,602928.354833 "Linux 5.6-rc1",629594.312126,603464.020542,616153.918092 "PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",24002.624483,24053.688978,23993.271721 "Linux 5.6-rc1",24899.403443,24946.946842,24571.355795 "SQLite Speedtest 3.30 - Timed Time - Size 1,000", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",68.497,68.545,68.04 "Linux 5.6-rc1",66.319,66.579,66.61 "RawTherapee - Total Benchmark Time", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",62.68,64.059,63.88 "Linux 5.6-rc1",62.753,62.422,61.925 "BenchmarkMutex - Benchmark: Mutex Lock Unlock std::mutex", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",20.2,20.2,20.2 "Linux 5.6-rc1",20.2,20.2,20.1 "BenchmarkMutex - Benchmark: Semaphore Release And Acquire", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",17.1,17.2,17.1 "Linux 5.6-rc1",17.1,17.1,17.1 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Forking", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",70592.09,72798.82,71797.56 "Linux 5.6-rc1",73050.93,71500.84,64012.3,72192.25,72855.37,70270.19,74020.51,67877.93,71765.57,73809.53,74391.21,73462.21,73309.58,74399.38,69748.93 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Semaphores", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",2223459.21,2205257.74,2150193.32 "Linux 5.6-rc1",2111790.01,2146356.95,2030030.81 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Socket Activity", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",31541.32,33635.15,33737.61,33237.12,33537.69 "Linux 5.6-rc1",31566.14,33412.3,32742.82 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: Context Switching", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",22083428.26,23679865.62,24544348.08,22287423.05,21450016.66,19094907.47,20470206.51,22550459.82,23101740.44,23757139.5,21759279.16,23013526.96,24883747.7,23071486.9,22597903 "Linux 5.6-rc1",24554302.19,20802862.94,24985251.38,23408378,20429806.55,22520093.97,22308624.86,26656024.15,22957966.87,21980552.16,20535511.2,23222876.82,22691244.62,21152226.35,21571247.3 "Stress-NG 0.07.26 - Test: System V Message Passing", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",6241357.4,6284283.17,6286158.02 "Linux 5.6-rc1",8003462.08,8069582.35,8034634.96 "ctx_clock - Context Switch Time", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",136,136,134 "Linux 5.6-rc1",134,136,136 "Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6 - Test: Sequential Fill", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",187435,186695,187527 "Linux 5.6-rc1",192597,193107,192083 "Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6 - Test: Random Fill Sync", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",163724,164688,164583 "Linux 5.6-rc1",151881,151467,151260 "Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6 - Test: Read While Writing", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",6906798,6438254,6310577,7173198,6196904,6447521,8784856,6282011,6297919,6252472,6447821,7201616 "Linux 5.6-rc1",6346037,6452389,6709791 "Blender 2.81 - Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",99.89,100.05,100.26 "Linux 5.6-rc1",100.08,100.44,99.77 "Blender 2.81 - Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",153.86,154.82,155.46 "Linux 5.6-rc1",154.45,154.32,154.69 "PyBench 2018-02-16 - Total For Average Test Times", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",1087,1083,1082 "Linux 5.6-rc1",1083,1084,1088 "NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",33043.3,31556.47,31940.38 "Linux 5.6-rc1",32753.9,31569.15,31343.55 "Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",25786.27,25800.32,25660.51 "Linux 5.6-rc1",24559.82,24673.22,25637.53 "PHPBench 0.8.1 - PHP Benchmark Suite", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",650883,656605,644239 "Linux 5.6-rc1",655619,656456,657107 "OSBench - Test: Create Files", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",14.123218,14.163135,14.075137 "Linux 5.6-rc1",14.432295,14.856151,14.42758 "OSBench - Test: Create Threads", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",18.041134,18.19849,18.229485 "Linux 5.6-rc1",18.088818,17.879009,18.391609 "OSBench - Test: Launch Programs", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",43.008327,41.840076,43.029785 "Linux 5.6-rc1",42.250156,45.990944,44.400692,42.870045,42.40036,44.128895,43.509007,44.021606 "OSBench - Test: Create Processes", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",32.711029,32.520294,32.949448 "Linux 5.6-rc1",32.241344,32.248497,32.289028 "OSBench - Test: Memory Allocations", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 5.5",88.515997,88.386059,88.536978 "Linux 5.6-rc1",88.63306,87.951899,88.771105