Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Sep 1998 20:45:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: BogoMIPS |
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > Linus, > > Will you please put this patch into some distribution on the near > > future. It fixes the bobbling BogoMIPS that different Intel machines > > produce with random cache-line refills. I can't possibly hurt anything > > since it's just two jumps before the delay-loop. > > It doesn't help anything. This small patch just makes it jitter in > different ways. > > 2.0.34+ has the right approach, but I haven't bothered to port it to > 2.1.x, and apparently nobody else has either. > > Linus >
Hmmm. It certainly helps here! It also has helped others who complained!
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.1.123 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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