Re: IP masquerade affecting bogomips

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:44:56 +0100


Hi,

> I noticed a change in my BogoMIPS today. It seems related to building a
> kernel with IP masquerading. I have read the BogoMIPS mini-howto and the
> IP Masquerade mini-howto and still can't figure out why it is happening.

It seems to be the well-known problem of delay loop speed (which is used
to calculate BogoMIPS) dependent on code alignment. What CPU do you run the
kernel on? And do you compile the kernel as a.out or as ELF?

Have a nice fortnight

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