From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Pohl <christoph.pohl@inf.tu-dresden.de>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Low bogomips on IBM x445 (kernel 2.6.5)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:11:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40901E1A.9020904@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1083184612.9664.15.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com>
john stultz wrote:
> This is expected. Since the IBM x440/x445 are NUMA systems, we cannot
> use the TSC (cpu cycle counter) as a time source. Instead we use an off
> chip performance counter which runs at 100Mhz. This then translates to a
> bogoMIPS value of ~200.
That sounds very strange. Bogomips is supposed to be how many busy-wait loops the cpu can do in a
second, or at least that's what I've seen in all the books. It shouldn't matter what the time
source is.
I would expect a NUMA machine to have different bogomips values for the different CPUs, but the
values should still be the same as if that cpu was on a uniprocessor system, no?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-28 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-27 11:01 Low bogomips on IBM x445 (kernel 2.6.5) Christoph Pohl
2004-04-27 18:01 ` Jurriaan
2004-04-28 5:50 ` Christoph Pohl
2004-04-28 10:28 ` Jurriaan
2004-04-28 20:36 ` john stultz
2004-04-28 21:11 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-04-28 21:33 ` john stultz
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