The Performance Impact From Different Arch Linux Kernel Flavors

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 25 January 2023 at 12:00 PM EST. Page 6 of 8. 51 Comments.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: MMAP. 5.15.89-1-lts was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: NUMA. 6.1.7-hardened1-1-hardened was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Mutex. 5.15.89-1-lts was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Malloc. 5.15.89-1-lts was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Forking. 5.15.89-1-lts was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: IO_uring. 6.0.5.14.realtime1-3-rt was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Semaphores. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

Various kernel micro-benchmarks via Stress-NG for those interested.

Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: BMW27, Compute: CPU-Only. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: CPU-Only. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

The Arch Linux kernel choices on the Ryzen 9 7950X desktop didn't lead to much of a difference in the Blender CPU render performance.


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