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SubjectRE: bogo-bogomips
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If you enable SMP in the kernel config then after boot up you get the right
answer ?


Colin
> ----------
> From: Alan Cox[SMTP:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
> Sent: 17 March 2000 18:31
> To: morton@nortelnetworks.com
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: bogo-bogomips
>
> > 2.3.99-pre1 is getting my bogomips wrong:
>
> No
>
> > It's normally half this. Poking around in kcore shows that
> > loops_per_sec is 447283200, so it's definitely the measurement which has
> > gone wrong.
>
> No
>
> > Makes me wonder if the RTC is playing up. Any theories?
>
> Its -BOGO- mips. Its a bogus meaningless indication of process speed.
> We've
> changed the way we measure it for delay loops to use the TSC on chips that
> support RDTSC.
>
> Alan
>
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