public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] wrong bogomips  values with kernel 2.6.16
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:35:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44218AF2.90003@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603220717270.26286@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Knut Petersen wrote:
>  
>
>>All Pentium M, Xeon up to model 2 and the P6 family increment with every
>>internal processor cycle.
>>    
>>
>
>Just to humor me. Try the bogomips loop in user space with something like 
>the appended (make sure the frequency is fixed to the lowest frequency).
>
>		Linus
>  
>
No problem ...

linux:~ # cat 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
1867000 1600000 1333000 1067000 800000

linux:~ # echo 800000 > 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed;cat 
/proc/cpuinfo;./test
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tmpbe nx est tm2
bogomips        : 3730.27

TSC: 798.307872 MHz




linux:~ # echo 1067000 > 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed;cat 
/proc/cpuinfo;./test
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 1067.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tmpbe nx est tm2
bogomips        : 4975.25

TSC: 1064.407897 MHz



linux:~ # echo 1333000 > 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed;cat 
/proc/cpuinfo;./test
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 1333.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tmpbe nx est tm2
bogomips        : 6215.57

TSC: 1330.511688 MHz


linux:~ # echo 1600000 > 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed;cat 
/proc/cpuinfo;./test
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 1600.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tmpbe nx est tm2
bogomips        : 7460.55

TSC: 1596.612533 MHz


linux:~ # echo 1867000 > 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed;cat 
/proc/cpuinfo;./test
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 1867.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tmpbe nx est tm2
bogomips        : 8705.53

TSC: 1862.715048 MHz


I tried kernel _2.6.15_ too - it´s even more broken:

linux:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo;./test
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 4347.853
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tmpbe nx est tm2
bogomips        : 8702.35

TSC: 1863.086854 MHz

Isn´t that nice? I´m able to overclock my 1.86 MHz cpu to stable 4.35 MHz
with just a passive heatsink ;-)))

cu,
 Knut

      reply	other threads:[~2006-03-22 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-21 13:10 [BUG] wrong bogomips values with kernel 2.6.16 Knut Petersen
2006-03-21 18:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-22  5:19   ` Knut Petersen
2006-03-22 15:30     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-22 17:35       ` Knut Petersen [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=44218AF2.90003@t-online.de \
    --to=knut_petersen@t-online.de \
    --cc=akpm@osdl.org \
    --cc=davej@redhat.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox