XanMod, Liquorix Kernels Offer Some Advantages On AMD Ryzen 5 Notebook

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 26 July 2021 at 08:32 AM EDT. Page 2 of 6. 40 Comments.
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

In some of the LevelDB tests, Liquorix was yielding faster results than the other kernels that yielded comparable results between them. One of the I/O related changes with Liquorix is the use of BFQ for the I/O scheduler while all other tested kernels defaulted to none for the NVMe solid-state storage.

Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Meanwhile in select LevelDB tests like overwrite, Liquorix performed the worst while XanMod jumped out ahead of the mainline kernel builds.

Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Linux Kernels Test On AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

With some of the RocksDB benchmarks, Liquorix was also the front-runner.


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