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Linux 6.16's New "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 28 July 2025 at 11:46 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 18 Comments.

👁 OSBench benchmark with settings of Test: Create Processes. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 OSBench benchmark with settings of Test: Create Threads. Linux 6.16 was the fastest.

👁 OSBench benchmark with settings of Test: Launch Programs. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 OSBench benchmark with settings of Test: Memory Allocations. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Schbench benchmark with settings of Message Threads: 32, Cache Footprint: 256 kb, Locking: Yes. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Schbench benchmark with settings of Message Threads: 64, Cache Footprint: 256 kb, Locking: Yes. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Schbench benchmark with settings of Message Threads: 64, Cache Footprint: 256 kb, Locking: Yes. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

In some of the synthetic benchmarks involving the kernel there were small gains out of the X86_NATIVE_CPU Linux 6.16 kernel build.

👁 Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Forking. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: System V Message Passing. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Socket Activity. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Context Switching. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Futex. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

With the stress-ng benchmark some wins were observed with the X86_NATIVE_CPU kernel in these basic synthetic kernel micro-benchmarks.

👁 LevelDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Sequential Fill. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 LevelDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Sequential Fill. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 LevelDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Random Fill. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 LevelDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Random Fill. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Flexible IO Tester benchmark with settings of Type: Random Read, Engine: IO_uring, Direct: No, Block Size: 4KB, Job Count: 1, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Flexible IO Tester benchmark with settings of Type: Random Read, Engine: IO_uring, Direct: No, Block Size: 4KB, Job Count: 16, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Flexible IO Tester benchmark with settings of Type: Random Read, Engine: IO_uring, Direct: No, Block Size: 4KB, Job Count: 32, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

👁 Flexible IO Tester benchmark with settings of Type: Random Write, Engine: POSIX AIO, Direct: No, Block Size: 4KB, Job Count: 32, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. Linux 6.16 X86_NATIVE_CPU was the fastest.

Some of the largest improvements were observed with the LevelDB database on the X86_NATIVE_CPU kernel build.

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