NovaCustom NV41 Qubes OS vCPU affinity Testing the performance impact of performance/efficient cores in a Qubes OS VM Performance (4 cores): Processor: Intel Core i7-1260P (4 Cores), Memory: 6GB, Disk: 78GB, Graphics: llvmpipe OS: Fedora Linux 38, Kernel: 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.14, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 23.1.9 (LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 13.2.1 20231011, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: Xen 4.17.2 Hypervisor Efficient (4 cores): Processor: Intel Core i7-1260P (4 Cores), Memory: 6GB, Disk: 78GB, Graphics: llvmpipe OS: Fedora Linux 38, Kernel: 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.14, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 23.1.9 (LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 13.2.1 20231011, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: Xen 4.17.2 Hypervisor No affinity forced (4 cores): Processor: Intel Core i7-1260P (4 Cores), Memory: 6GB, Disk: 78GB, Graphics: llvmpipe OS: Fedora Linux 38, Kernel: 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.14, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 23.1.9 (LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 13.2.1 20231011, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: Xen 4.17.2 Hypervisor LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 1 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 8709.21 |================================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 10086.24 |====================================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 1 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 438.0 |===== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 3533.2 |======================================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 57.49 |===================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 37.14 |======================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 62.88 |========================================= LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 3 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 3556.2 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 2926.7 |================================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 143.8 |== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 9 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 54.62 |========================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 35.11 |========================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 53.71 |======================================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 9 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 2165.4 |========================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 1823.7 |===================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 3436.3 |======================================== RAR Compression 6.0.2 Linux Source Tree Archiving To RAR Seconds < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 52.73 |=========================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 80.45 |========================================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 78.31 |======================================== System GZIP Decompression Seconds < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 2.810 |================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3.450 |========================================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 3.336 |======================================== System XZ Decompression Seconds < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 2.958 |=============================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3.859 |========================================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 2.950 |=============================== System ZLIB Decompression 1.2.7 ms < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 3.005055 |================================ Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3.574161 |====================================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 3.547565 |====================================== XZ Compression 5.2.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 Seconds < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 81.32 |================================ Efficient (4 cores) .......... 101.75 |======================================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 95.86 |====================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 50 |============================================ Efficient (4 cores) .......... 36 |================================ No affinity forced (4 cores) . 49 |=========================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 135 |=========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 106 |================================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 136 |=========================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 595 |=========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 403 |============================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 601 |=========================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 2005 |========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 1389 |============================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 2023 |========================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 115 |=========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 69 |========================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 116 |=========================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 2164 |========================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 1512 |============================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 2192 |========================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Crush 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 130 |=========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 81 |=========================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 89 |============================= lzbench 1.8 Test: Crush 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 515 |=========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 409 |================================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 436 |==================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 540 |=========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 357 |============================ No affinity forced (4 cores) . 417 |================================= lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 600 |=========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 479 |================================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 518 |===================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 233 |=========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 155 |============================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 175 |================================ lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 726 |=========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 562 |================================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 605 |==================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 297 |=========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 186 |=========================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 185 |=========================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 1204 |========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 927 |================================ No affinity forced (4 cores) . 930 |================================ 7-Zip Compression 22.01 Test: Compression Rating MIPS > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 26573 |========================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 19257 |============================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 20012 |=============================== 7-Zip Compression 22.01 Test: Decompression Rating MIPS > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 14771 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 15026 |========================================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 13605 |===================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 983.6 |========================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 365.9 |=============== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 721.7 |============================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 3 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 1512.4 |======================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 1073.2 |============================ No affinity forced (4 cores) . 1539.6 |======================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 8 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 212.7 |========================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 132.2 |========================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 159.7 |=============================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 8 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 1596.4 |====================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 1168.6 |============================ No affinity forced (4 cores) . 1669.2 |======================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 12 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 85.1 |========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 54.3 |=========================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 68.7 |================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 12 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 1603.1 |======================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 1155.4 |============================ No affinity forced (4 cores) . 1654.1 |======================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 8.21 |========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 6.34 |================================ No affinity forced (4 cores) . 6.48 |================================= Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 19 - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 1392.2 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 983.4 |============================ No affinity forced (4 cores) . 1309.3 |====================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 3, Long Mode - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 669.0 |========================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 322.1 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 526.1 |================================ Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 3, Long Mode - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 1559.5 |======================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 1099.5 |=========================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 1615.8 |======================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 8, Long Mode - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 214.8 |========================================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 129.8 |========================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 172.1 |================================= Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 8, Long Mode - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 1640.3 |====================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 1174.9 |=========================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 1713.9 |======================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 19, Long Mode - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 6.74 |========================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 5.07 |================================ No affinity forced (4 cores) . 5.57 |=================================== Zstd Compression 1.5.4 Compression Level: 19, Long Mode - Decompression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 1341.1 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 950.4 |============================ No affinity forced (4 cores) . 1204.0 |==================================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 8MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 9951.4 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 4864.0 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 6023.1 |======================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 16MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 9897.2 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 4700.5 |=================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 5489.5 |====================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 32MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 8853.4 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 4400.5 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 6131.7 |============================ C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 64MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 7993.7 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 4169.3 |===================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 5488.3 |=========================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 8MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 8294.8 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 4689.4 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 5989.5 |============================= C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 128MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 6699.3 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3765.4 |====================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 4976.4 |============================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz shuffle - Buffer Size: 256MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 5277.3 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3001.6 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 3893.3 |============================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 8MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 7702.6 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3862.0 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 4536.7 |======================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 16MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 7590.5 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 4254.0 |====================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 5655.9 |============================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 32MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 6581.8 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 4053.6 |========================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 5199.7 |================================ C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 64MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 6346.2 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3847.7 |======================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 4911.5 |=============================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 16MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 7768.8 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3779.0 |=================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 5356.7 |============================ C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 32MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 7329.1 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3678.0 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 4912.5 |=========================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 64MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 6886.0 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3505.8 |==================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 4722.9 |=========================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 128MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 5404.7 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3385.3 |========================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 4366.2 |================================ C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz noshuffle - Buffer Size: 256MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 4590.5 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 2783.2 |======================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 3904.2 |================================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 128MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 5775.3 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 3188.1 |====================== No affinity forced (4 cores) . 4407.0 |=============================== C-Blosc 2.11 Test: blosclz bitshuffle - Buffer Size: 256MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 4625.0 |======================================== Efficient (4 cores) .......... 2622.4 |======================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 3454.5 |============================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Performance (4 cores) ........ 35.11 |============================= Efficient (4 cores) .......... 50.46 |========================================= No affinity forced (4 cores) . 40.48 |=================================