Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:43:15 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 0/4] Reordering of functions, try 2 |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 27 February 2006 16:23, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> 2) In the "processor/processes" group, 7 tests changed behavior, and the >> average of these changes was a performance increase by 10% (!!). The >> exception was the signal handling test, which decreased by 6%. This >> actually made me feel good, since the original function list was based >> on a profile run that didn't do signals much if at all. > > How often did you rerun lmbench each time?
I ran it 5 times each time and then took the average of the runs (yes that takes forever)
> In my experience the numbers > are somewhat unstable. Still looks encouraging.
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