Re: bogo-bogomips

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 13:31:24 EST


> 2.3.99-pre1 is getting my bogomips wrong:

No

> It's normally half this. Poking around in kcore shows that
> loops_per_sec is 447283200, so it's definitely the measurement which has
> gone wrong.

No

> Makes me wonder if the RTC is playing up. Any theories?

Its -BOGO- mips. Its a bogus meaningless indication of process speed. We've
changed the way we measure it for delay loops to use the TSC on chips that
support RDTSC.

Alan

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