RE: [Linux-ia64] Re: prctl patch for fpu faults

David Mosberger
2001-10-11T03:21:34Z

>>>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:11:58 -0700, "Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@intel.com> said:

>> Can you be more specific? A machine should easily tolerate a
>> rate of one logged message per second, so if this makes a
>> significant performance difference, that would be strange.

Asit> We saw a 2-5% performance degradation of specfp benchmarks
Asit> when the logging was enabled. I can take a look at this again
Asit> and see how often the FPSWA messages are getting logged.

On which one? Speed or throughput?

--david