From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:17:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:17:15 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:49402 "HELO executor.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:17:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA8EF40.8D70612D@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:17:20 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com Organization: Red Hat, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roberto Jung Drebes Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply. In-Reply-To: <3BA8EA04.E55BAA02@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roberto Jung Drebes wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > Ok but that part is simple: > > > > run > > > > http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/athlon.c > > I will run it tonight, and report the results later. Any recommendation, > like running in single user mode, or something like that? Nah don't bother, just make sure your machine is mostly idle. The performance difference between the clasical code and the "fast" code should be in the 2x order; running the test a few times should be a good enough test.