Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:01:08 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! |
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > And please check your numbers, 857 million > > context switches per second means that on a 1 GHZ CPU you do one context > > switch per 1.16 clock cycles. Wow! > > Excuse me, 857,000,000 instructions executed and 460,000,000 context switches > a second -- on a PII system at 350 Mhz. [...]
so it does 1.3 context switches per clock cycle? Wow! And i can type 100000000000000000000 characters a second, just measured it. Really!
> Your Tux web server will also run on it, at significantly increased > performance.
as i told you in the previous mails, TUX does not depend on schedule() performance. schedule() cost does not even show up in the top 20 entries of the profiler.
Ingo
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