From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Moore's law (was Re: [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:08:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060105190845.GB2520@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601051631.00146.ak@suse.de>
On Thu 05-01-06 16:30:59, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 26 December 2005 01:33, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> [cc list from hell trimmed down]
> > :-) Expressing performance increases in Moore's hours seems like
> > neat trick. OTOH I do not think it is valid any more. Single-threaded
> > performance stopped increasing 2 years ago AFAICS.
>
> It's not true. e.g. a 2.6 Ghz FX-57 is significantly faster than the
> top end CPU you could get 2 years ago. And I'm sure this years CPUs
> will be still faster than last years.
Well, but it is no longer 2x as fast...
> > Plus people are
> > pushing Linux onto smaller machines, that were unavailable 2 years
> > ago.
>
> Even smaller systems are still getting faster.
Yep. OTOH this is the first time when *average* linux box is getting
*slower* -- mostly due to massive ammount of cheap, linux-based
wifi access points on the market.
(Average linux desktop box is still gettting faster, though)
--
Thanks, Sharp!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-05 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-22 11:41 [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4 Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 11:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-22 12:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 15:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 15:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 16:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 16:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 16:58 ` Russell King
2005-12-22 21:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 21:26 ` Russell King
2005-12-22 21:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 21:37 ` [patch 1/2] mutex subsystem: basic per arch fast path primitives Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 21:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-22 21:40 ` [patch 2/2] mutex subsystem: use the per architecture fast path lock_unlock defines Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 21:54 ` [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4 Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 16:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 17:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-22 17:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-22 18:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 11:54 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-22 12:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 13:07 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-22 13:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-22 13:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-22 14:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-22 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-22 23:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-22 23:49 ` Sean
2005-12-22 23:49 ` Sean
2005-12-22 23:53 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-12-23 0:00 ` Sean
2005-12-23 0:00 ` Sean
2005-12-23 0:00 ` Steven Rostedt
[not found] ` <20051222221311.2f6056ec.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-12-23 14:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-23 14:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-23 14:57 ` Russell King
2005-12-23 15:04 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-12-23 15:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-23 15:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-03 17:54 ` Abhijit Bhopatkar
2005-12-25 16:08 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-25 22:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-26 21:49 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-25 23:04 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-25 23:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-26 10:35 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-26 10:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-26 11:11 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-26 17:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2005-12-26 17:44 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-27 0:32 ` David Lang
2005-12-26 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-27 14:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-27 23:02 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-26 0:33 ` Moore's law (was Re: [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4) Pavel Machek
2006-01-05 15:30 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-05 19:08 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-12-26 15:29 ` [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4 Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 15:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-12-22 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-22 20:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-22 17:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-22 15:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 21:43 ` Paul Mackerras
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