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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: kernel coder <lhrkernelcoder@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: increased number of cycles
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:39:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47404EA1.5010902@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f69849430711172131j41c21d84y2ac10759eff29eb7@mail.gmail.com>

kernel coder wrote:
> hi,
>         I'm trying to add some code to netif_receive_skb function in
> dev.c file . The cycles consumed by that code was around 16 cycles on
> Dual Core Opetron machine.I'm working on that code for last 6 months
> now and the consumed cycles have always been around 16 cycles .I don't
> touch any other part of kernel .
> 
> But for last 4 days the consumed cycles have suddenly increased to
> around 35 cycles . I'm using RDTSC instruction to profile the
> code.There is no change in code and the kernel version is also the
> same .I am assuming that there  must be something wrong with hardware.
..

A cache miss ?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-18 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-18  5:31 increased number of cycles kernel coder
2007-11-18 13:48 ` Wander Winkelhorst
2007-11-18 14:39 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-11-20  1:24 ` Arjan van de Ven

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