From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:28:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:28:50 -0400 Received: from fabulous.u--3.com ([212.50.142.250]:7632 "HELO fabulous.u--3.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:28:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:28:55 +0300 From: Erno Kuusela To: Brad Pepers Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply. Message-ID: <20010920012855.U31911@fabulous.u--3.com> In-Reply-To: <20010919214317Z274216-760+14235@vger.kernel.org> <01091916225800.23716@dragon.linuxcan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01091916225800.23716@dragon.linuxcan.com>; from brad@linuxcanada.com on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:22:58PM -0600 Organization: 26-dimensional hypercube X-PGP-Key-URL: http://212.50.142.250/dsakey.asc - please use it! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hello, On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Brad Pepers wrote: | I've noticed that on my Athalon 1.4GHz system (Asus A7V133), I get results | quite a bit higher than reported here when running the athalon.c program. | For example everyone posting seemed to get 4000-5000 cycles per page for the | clear_page fuctions "faster_clear_page" and "even_faster_clear" while mine is | in the 6300-6700 range. Does this indicate I'm missing some BIOS | optimizations? Slow memory? Something else? you have a faster cpu (but same speed memory) - so more cycles pass by when doing memory operations. -- erno