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From: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can context switches be faster?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:36:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <452EA766.80307@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160684954.3000.473.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> ther uniprocessor machines.
>> That's a load more descriptive :D
>>
>> 0.890 uS, 0.556uS/cycle, that's barely 2 cycles you know.  (Pentium M)
>> PPC performs similarly, 1 cycle should be about 1uS.
>>
>>> Chris
> 
> you have your units off; 1 cycle is 1 nS not 1 uS  (or 0.556 nS for the
> pM)

Ah, right right.  Nano is a billion, micro is a million.  How did I get
that mixed up.

So that's barely two THOUSAND cycles.  Which is closer to what I
expected (i.e., not instant)


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-12 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-12 15:44 Can context switches be faster? John Richard Moser
2006-10-12 15:53 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-12 17:19 ` Russell King
2006-10-12 18:25   ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-12 18:37     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-12 18:56       ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-12 19:02         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-13 11:05       ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-10-13 14:51         ` Chase Venters
2006-10-12 18:20 ` Phillip Susi
2006-10-12 18:29   ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-13  2:53     ` Andrew James Wade
2006-10-13  5:29       ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-13 16:56         ` Andrew James Wade
2006-10-13 17:24           ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-12 19:57 ` Chris Friesen
2006-10-12 20:23   ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-12 20:29     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-12 20:36       ` John Richard Moser [this message]
2006-10-12 20:35     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-13 23:32       ` Andreas Mohr
2006-10-13 23:47         ` David Lang
2006-10-14  0:14         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-14  0:30         ` Alan Cox
2006-10-14  0:14           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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