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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Erik Bosman <ejbosman@cs.vu.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Implement prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:02:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48028305.8040104@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0804132320260.6537@keg.few.vu.nl>

Erik Bosman wrote:
> 
> It took me a while, but I have done some tests om my system with and
> without my patch applied.
> 
> All deamons but klogd/syslogd were shut down andI used the following
> command:
> 
> LMBENCH_SCHED="SINGLE" \
> /usr/lib/lmbench/bin/{i686-pc,x86_64}-linux-gnu/lat_ctx -s 0 2
> 
> The variation was quite high so I ran it a 1000 times for each
> configuration.
> 
> x86_32, patch applied,     1000x repeated, avg: 1.319, rmse: 0.081
> x86_32, patch not applied, 1000x repeated, avg: 1.335, rmse: 0.107
> 
> x86_64, patch applied,     1000x repeated, avg: 1.417, rmse: 0.0716
> x86_64, patch not applied, 1000x repeated, avg: 1.423, rmse: 0.0745
> 
> This is on a core 2 duo E6300.
> 

OK, so it sounds like there is no measurable difference.  Good.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-13 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-11 16:55 [PATCH 2/3] x86: Implement prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC Erik Bosman
2008-04-12 19:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-12 20:48   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-12 21:05     ` Erik Bosman
2008-04-12 21:12       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-13 21:51     ` Erik Bosman
2008-04-13 22:02       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-14  8:42         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-13 22:24 ` [PATCH 2/3-REVISED] " Erik Bosman
2008-04-14  3:58   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-14  8:48     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-14 10:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] " Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-14 11:59   ` Erik Bosman
2008-04-14 12:21     ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-26 22:47     ` dean gaudet
2008-04-26 22:51       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-26 23:14         ` dean gaudet
2008-04-26 23:46           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27  0:29             ` dean gaudet
2008-04-27  0:37               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27  0:47                 ` David Miller
2008-04-15  7:29 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15  7:46   ` Ingo Molnar

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