Re: How to measure i386 timer interrupt overhead

[Jan Engelhardt]

>If this program actually works, then the SMP timer interrupt on this
>system takes 1200-1420 cycles, with 448 of 945 taking 1200-1219 cycles.
>(All the normal interrupts are bound to CPU 0.)

Did you intend to measure the cycles, ticks(jiffies) or usec overhead?



Jan Engelhardt
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