Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Moore's law (was Re: [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4) | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:30:59 +0100 |
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On Monday 26 December 2005 01:33, Pavel Machek wrote:
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> > Another example: Ingo's VFS stresstest which is hitting i_sem hard: it only > > does ~8000 ops/sec on an 8-way, and it's an artificial microbenchmark which > > is _designed_ to hit that lock hard. So if/when i_sem is converted to a > > mutex, I figure that the benefits to ARM in that workload will be about a > > 0.01% performance increase. ie: about two hours' worth of Moore's law in a > > dopey microbenchmark.
Moore's law actually doesn't say anything about performance increases, just about the number of transistors available. > > :-) Expressing performance increases in Moore's hours seems like > neat trick. OTOH I do not think it is valid any more. Single-threaded > performance stopped increasing 2 years ago AFAICS.
It's not true. e.g. a 2.6 Ghz FX-57 is significantly faster than the top end CPU you could get 2 years ago. And I'm sure this years CPUs will be still faster than last years.
> Plus people are > pushing Linux onto smaller machines, that were unavailable 2 years > ago.
Even smaller systems are still getting faster.
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