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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Gergely Czuczy <phoemix@harmless.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 VS 2.6 fork VS thread creation time test
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 01:08:19 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040523150819.GB7659@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0405231058530.25386@localhost>


> It doesn't matter. That's why you should look at the "ratio" at the end
> and not on the pure numbers, they are just bonus "information"

Your experimental method leaves a _lot_ to be desired. It matters a
great deal. eg It would be worth reading up how wildly different atomic
operations are on different x86 chips:

http://www.labs.fujitsu.com/en/techinfo/linux/lse-0211/lse-0211.pdf

Anton

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-23 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-23  7:57 Gergely Czuczy
2004-05-23  8:55 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-23  9:03   ` Gergely Czuczy
2004-05-23  9:38     ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-23 15:08     ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2004-05-23  9:39 ` Christian Borntraeger
2004-05-23 10:00   ` David Lang
2004-05-23 19:47     ` Christian Borntraeger
2004-05-24  0:06       ` David Lang
     [not found]     ` <1085325156.622.0.camel@boxen>
     [not found]       ` <D53BF43BC70DD511A22500508BB3C0070A73CE83@wlvexc00.diginsite.com>
2004-05-24  7:15         ` David Lang

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