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From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>
To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: sparc64 lazy conditional codes evaluation
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 13:56:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BEE99EF.1020202@siriusit.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k2lf43fc5581005101133wd185ae8cn5c8990ec882e376f@mail.gmail.com>

Blue Swirl wrote:

> Guest time can be unreliable, it could also indicate that Linux
> executes a lot more timer interrupts. Could you retest and measure the
> wall clock time?
> 
> I think the C flag change should only increase performance. The next
> commit may have negative effects because more work is done every
> interrupt, but it's also more correct now.

Hmmm looks like you're right. I did a few more tests measuring wall 
clock time and averaging across a set of runs gives roughly the same 
time (although there does seem to be quite a bit of variation in 
resulting times on my system here). So nothing to worry about here.


ATB,

Mark.

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-15 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-03  7:17 [Qemu-devel] sparc64 lazy conditional codes evaluation Igor Kovalenko
2010-05-03 19:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-05-03 19:46   ` Igor Kovalenko
2010-05-03 19:54     ` Blue Swirl
2010-05-03 20:03       ` Igor Kovalenko
2010-05-04 20:21         ` Blue Swirl
2010-05-05 20:24           ` Igor Kovalenko
2010-05-06 18:51             ` Blue Swirl
2010-05-08  6:41               ` Igor Kovalenko
2010-05-09 20:22                 ` Blue Swirl
2010-05-10  9:40                   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2010-05-10 18:33                     ` Blue Swirl
2010-05-15 12:56                       ` Mark Cave-Ayland [this message]

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