Linux 5.1 Is Offering Up Some Performance Improvements, At Least For Cascade Lake

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.1 Is Offering Up Some Performance Improvements, At Least For Cascade Lake

It's been busy recently testing Intel's new Xeon Platinum 8280 Cascade Lake processors as well as the in-development Linux 5.1 kernel following the recent closure of its merge window. Interestingly, at least for this combination, Linux 5.1 is running even faster for these new Cascade Lake processors in some workloads...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-51-Performance-CXL-Server

[wolfwood]

hopefully the 7980-XE is on the list for follow up benchmarks

[BOYSSSSS]

I updated to kernel 5.0.6 and get stuck on "fb: switching to amdgpudrmfb from VESA VGA" at boot on AMD RX560, KDE neon.
Otherwise it works on kernel 4.18.0-17
On kernels 4.19 and 4.20 I get stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk"

[BOYSSSSS]

hreindl 5.0.6-050006-generic #201904030534 SMP Wed Apr 3 05:36:14 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

on KDE neon (based on Ubuntu 18.04)
like I said on kernel 4.19 and 4.20 I get stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk" on 5.0.6 "fb: switching to amdgpudrmfb from VESA VGA"
I have some problem with the motherboard where the pcie works on x8 instead of x16 but it works on 4.18 and Windows 7

Edit: Also my root and home folders are on a M.2 PCIe NVMe and my boot is on a Kingston SSD