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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Tobias Doerffel <tobias.doerffel@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Specific support for Intel Atom architecture
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:14:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090504131457.GA25844@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905031308.51316.tobias.doerffel@gmail.com>


* Tobias Doerffel <tobias.doerffel@gmail.com> wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 3. Mai 2009 08:48:54 schrieb H. Peter Anvin:
> > Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > >> $(call cc-option,-march=atom,-march=i686)
> > >
> > > if it's an in-order architecture, wouldn't it be better to tune for i386
> > > or i486 instead ?
> >
> > Possibly.  It would be worth measuring.
>
> How would one do that (never benchmarked kernel stuff before)?

A standard method is to run lmbench and compare the results - 
lmbench has a built-in 'report comparison between two runs' feature.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-04 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-30 12:08 Specific support for Intel Atom architecture Tobias Doerffel
2009-04-30 15:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-30 17:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-30 17:10   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-03  5:38     ` Willy Tarreau
2009-05-03  6:48       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-03 11:08         ` Tobias Doerffel
2009-05-04 13:14           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-05-04 13:32             ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-04 17:55               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-03 14:53       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-03 18:30         ` Willy Tarreau
2009-05-03 18:37           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-03 19:38             ` Måns Rullgård
2009-05-04  7:22 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-11 21:30   ` Tobias Doerffel
2009-05-12  6:53     ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-12 14:20   ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-05-12 15:04     ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-12 17:45       ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-05-12 18:13         ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-14  5:04         ` Harvey Harrison
2009-05-14 13:38           ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-05-14 14:01             ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-14 16:19               ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-05-14 17:29                 ` Andi Kleen

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