Re: BogoMIPS

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:50:46 +0200

> Therefore, I had to hack around with '486s, '586s, and '686s to find
> a jump combination that would work. You can easly muck with this
> in user-mode and test all possible combinations. Take out the second
> jump and you will have bobble on Pentium II (Klamath) machines. Take
> out all jumps and just align the function and you will have problems
> with everything except '486s. Don't align the function and you
> will have problems even with '486s.

What does your patch fix? Delay loop variances across udelay() calls
or across different kernel builds?

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"The computer is mightier than the pen, the sword, and usually, the programmer."


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