Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:40:14 +0100 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] init: calibrate: don't print out bogomips value on boot |
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:52:35PM +0100, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:57:20 +0100 Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote: > > > @@ -295,9 +295,7 @@ void calibrate_delay(void) > > } > > per_cpu(cpu_loops_per_jiffy, this_cpu) = lpj; > > if (!printed) > > - pr_cont("%lu.%02lu BogoMIPS (lpj=%lu)\n", > > - lpj/(500000/HZ), > > - (lpj/(5000/HZ)) % 100, lpj); > > + pr_cont("lpj=%lu\n", lpj); > > > > loops_per_jiffy = lpj; > > printed = true; > > Kidding? BogoMIPS is an industry-standard metric which was established > before many of us were born. It even has its own wikipedia page!
Crikey, have you looked at that page? ARM is ominously described as `not enough data (yet)' when discussing its BogoMIPS `rating'. This is all more food for the marketing machines :(
> You have no heart.
Maybe I should stop worrying and learn to love the BogoMIPS.
Will
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