Using the oltp workload that comes packaged with sysbench, the median latency falls from 50us to 25us on a skylake xeon with nvme storage after recompiling MySQ

Using the oltp workload that comes packaged with sysbench, the median latency falls from 50us to 25us on a skylake xeon with nvme storage after recompiling MySQL and libc with march=skylake. Give it a whirl.