News Intel CPUs enjoy up to 14% boost in Linux - Intel Thread Director works its magic on the open source OS

[Admin]

A new patch for Thread Director on Linux sees hybrid Intel CPUs achieve better performance in virtual machines.

Intel CPUs enjoy up to 14% boost in Linux - Intel Thread Director works its magic on the open source OS : Read more

 

[bit_user]

The article's title is misleading, as it mentions nothing about Virtual Machines.

This patch is specifically to improve the performance of VMs hosted on a hybrid CPU. VMs were previously at a detriment, due to lack of Thread Director visibility. Performance of software running on bare metal is unaffected.

 

[TerryLaze]

The article's title is misleading, as it mentions nothing about Virtual Machines.

This patch is specifically to improve the performance of VMs hosted on a hybrid CPU. VMs were previously at a detriment, due to lack of Thread Director visibility. Performance of software running on bare metal is unaffected.

That's what up to means, that it's not with everything neither an average.

 

[mitch074]

That's what up to means, that it's not with everything neither an average.

No, bit_user is right, it's really misleading as this is a feature that's specific to kvm and has absolutely no impact on any task that's not virtualized. As a matter of fact, Phoronix mention the whole name of the patch, "Thread Director Virtualization" in the source article's title.

On top of that, the patch does mention that it's specifically limited to Windows 11 VMs running on a Linux host : it has zero impact on any other OS combination.

Linux VMs running on Linux were unaffected, Windows VMs running on Windows and Linux VMs running on Windows (no one does that) were already faster, if you throw Windows 10 into the mix it won't work at all anyway and if you were using AMD hardware, it was a non-issue. As such, when the article says, "At least for cloud gaming, this latest patch brings Linux another step closer to feature and performance parity with Windows" is false ! It should say, "only for cloud gaming, this latest patch may bring Windows 11 running on Linux on Intel hybrid processors to performance and feature parity with other combinations".