From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Fabiano Ramos <ramos_fabiano@yahoo.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strange AMD x Intel Behaviour in 2.4.26
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 23:40:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31xga2oly.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2MLlk-5MH-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (Fabiano Ramos's message of "Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:40:06 +0200")
Fabiano Ramos <ramos_fabiano@yahoo.com.br> writes:
> The code is producing correct results (same as ptrace, I mean)
> but is RUNNING FASTER on a 500Mhz AMD K6-2 than on a 2.6Ghz HT
> Pentium 4 !!!! The monitored code runs faster on P4 if not being
The Pentium 4 is slow for anything that involves changing of the
ring or an exception. Well known problem, you can see it in other
benchmarks too. Normally the penalty is not that drastic, probably
it doesn't like single stepping very much.
However a cheaper way to do this would be to use performance counters
and save/restore them on each context switch. There is normally a
perfctr for "retired instructions on ring 3", which is what you
want. Mikael P's perfctr patchkit can do that per process.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-07 21:43 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <2MLlk-5MH-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-10-07 21:40 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-10-07 22:25 ` strange AMD x Intel Behaviour in 2.4.26 Fabiano Ramos
2004-10-07 18:15 Fabiano Ramos
2004-10-07 18:45 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-07 20:19 ` Fabiano Ramos
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