Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:00:37 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: LMbench as gcc performance regression test? |
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:21:37AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > (There seems to be large variations in successive runs of LMBench > when I try it, so it may take me a bit of work to get repeatable > results.)
Other than the context switch part or anything based on it, that shouldn't be true, it should be very stable.
I'm pretty convinced that the variations are due to different pages being allocated and the result cache contention makes things bounce. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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