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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
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* Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote:

> I simply run the lmbench command, where the benchmark was obtained as 
> .rpm for Fedora 41 [1], assuming that the benchmark itself sets the 
> benchmarked system to the correct state and does enough repetitions 
> to obtain a meaningful result [2].

These assumptions are not valid in a lot of cases - see my other email 
with an example.

Thanks,

	Ingo