Early Benchmark Preview Of The Linux 3.8 Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Early Benchmark Preview Of The Linux 3.8 Kernel

While there's already been articles looking at the Nouveau NVIDIA driver and AMD Radeon driver on the forthcoming Linux 3.8 kernel, up today are some early computational benchmarks of this new kernel. From an Intel Core i7 "Ivy Bridge" system, some general-purpose Linux benchmarks were conducted from the Linux 3.5 kernel release through the latest Linux 3.8 Git development kernel.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=18336

[halo9en]

compressio and postgres results... ouch

[Steffo]

compressio and postgres results... ouch

Does the developer not care, that there is a huge performance regression in 3.8?!

[halo9en]

Michael, it would be nice to have updates once in a while about the current status of all these regressions you talk about in your articles. Browsing through a high-volume mailing list like LKML is not really easy