Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 12 Dec 2002 11:06:49 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:42, Terje Eggestad wrote:
> It takes about 11 cycles on athlon, 34 on PII, and a whooping 84 on P4. > > For a simple op like that, even 11 is a lot... Really makes you wonder.
wasn't rdtsc also supposed to be a pipeline sync of the cpu? (or am I confusing it with cpuid) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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