Comment # 84 on bug 1112824 from Dead Mozay

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #82)
> (In reply to Dead Mozay from comment #81)
> > (In reply to Borislav Petkov from comment #79)
> > > (In reply to Dead Mozay from comment #75)
> > > > Created attachment 792011 [details]
> > > > Logs
> > > 
> > > Yes, you're comparing apples with oranges:
> > > 
> > > 1. Fedora is 4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64 which has some patches - who knows
> > > what - all the distros do ship their own tweaks ontop.
> > > 
> > > 2. 4.20.0-rc5-1.g2ccaf30-vanilla which is the upstream kernel (perhaps?)
> > > and does not have those patches.
> > > 
> > > All this says is that Fedora's kernel is somewhat better, provided the
> > > benchmarks are sensible. I have no clue what yours do.
> > > 
> > > If you want to compare security mitigations, you need to take the same
> > > kernel and do two runs, once with the mitigation enabled and once with
> > > the mitigation disabled.
> > 
> > with the same kernel, the results are the same, just where it is installed
> > there is no possibility to use other kernels because of the proprietary
> > drivers nvidia.
> > in fedora vanilla kernel, without patches, at least so maintainers maintain
> > I tried to install fedora on this laptop, it works fine even with the kernel
> > 4.19.4 which was at that time
> 
> Are you testing Fedora kernel with openSUSE user-space stuff?  Or are you
> testing Fedora user-space?
> 
> If Fedora kernel works better with openSUSE user-space, then the point
> should be either Fedora's downstream patch or the difference of the kernel
> configuration.
> 
> For the latter case, you can try to build the upstream kernel with Fedora
> kernel config and see whether it works.

I tried to build the kernel with the fedora config, I even wrote about it
somewhere above, it works better, but there are still some problems,