Linux 5.9 Performance Is Off To A Great Start With FSGSBASE Boost

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 10 August 2020 at 06:08 PM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 8 Comments.

As shown in the past, AMD CPUs with FSGSBASE also benefit. Here are some early results on an AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT

Stay tuned for more Linux 5.9 benchmarks of FSGSBASE and other areas once the Linux 5.9 merge window has passed in order to being able to better assess the overall performance impact especially compared to the likes of Linux 5.8 or comparing the FSGSBASE performance to the performance on CPUs not mitigated for security mitigations impacting the context switching performance, etc.

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