From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: "Richardson,
Bruce" <bruce.richardson-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: next releases
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:06:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2353283.PtiVvKdYNr@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B0343ECAF0-kPTMFJFq+rELt2AQoY/u9bfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-28 08:41, Richardson, Bruce:
> As for rte_rdtsc_precise, I'm not sure about its origins, but I'm
> surprised to see that it does not correspond to the rdtscp instruction.
> Can anyone else comment on this one? I would assume it's designed
> to be used to get more accurate measurements of smaller blocks of
> code that we want to benchmark, since rdtsc works best when timing
> larger blocks (in terms of cycle counts, that is, not source lines :-) ).
The good thing with git history (and well written commit logs) is that
we can easily get such answer:
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=3314648f83c3dc06d7d9a
Bruce, do you know how rdtscp is supported across Intel processors?
--
Thomas
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2014-08-25 17:15 next releases Thomas Monjalon
2014-08-27 17:04 ` Cyril Chemparathy
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2014-08-28 8:41 ` Richardson, Bruce
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2014-08-28 9:06 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-08-28 9:22 ` Richardson, Bruce
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