Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:36:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: BogoMIPS |
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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
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