Re: lmbench results for 2.4 and 2.5 -- updated results

From: Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 15:01:05 EST


On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:53:44AM -0800, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> --- LMbench/src/lat_pagefault.c.org Mon Mar 24 10:40:46 2003
> +++ LMbench/src/lat_pagefault.c Mon Mar 24 10:54:34 2003
> @@ -67,5 +67,5 @@
> n++;
> }
> use_int(sum);
> - fprintf(stderr, "Pagefaults on %s: %d usecs\n", file, usecs/n);
> + fprintf(stderr, "Pagefaults on %s: %f usecs\n", file, (1.0 *
> usecs) / n);
> }

It's been a long time since I've looked at this benchmark, has anyone
stared at it and do you believe it measures anything useful? If not,
I'll drop it from a future release. If I remember correctly what I
was trying to do was to measure the cost of setting up the mapping
but I might be crackin smoke.

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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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