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 3 of 8. 53 Comments.
For video encoding workloads like the speedy SVT-AV1 encoder or uvg266 for H.266, there wasn't much of a difference besides the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel being the slowest due to optimizations merged in more recent versions that benefited the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X execution.
For 7-Zip compression both the Linux LTS and hardened kernels were the slowest.