Benchmarks Of The OpenSUSE Leap Kernel Flavors

With John The Ripper, the -desktop kernel performed much worse than the other three kernels -- even -debug. The -desktop kernel is tuned for boot times and responsiveness compared to the -default kernel.

John The Ripper seemed to be an outlier with performing much slower on the -desktop kernel than the other builds. With VP8 video encoding, the performance was close between the different official kernel flavors.

With x264 video encoding there also wasn't much difference in the results.

With the timed Linux kernel build process and C-Ray, the four tested kernel flavors were quite close in their results.

Well, from this quick kernel flavor testing roundabout, the -desktop kernel performed the best for the disk and graphics tests run. In the purely CPU-focused testing, the results from the debug, default, desktop, and vanilla flavors were quite close except for the case of John The Ripper, where the -desktop kernel performed much slower.

Feel free to reproduce these tests yourself or with other test workloads relevant to you by installing the Phoronix Test Suite and sharing the results on OpenBenchmarking.org.