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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!

  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
     [not found]                 ` <32801.10.10.10.28.1135295357.squirrel@linux1>
2005-12-22 23:49                   ` Sean
2005-12-22 23:53                     ` Randy.Dunlap
     [not found]                       ` <50572.10.10.10.28.1135296023.squirrel@linux1>
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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