RE: [Lmbench-users] Re: pipe performance regression on ia64

[Luck, Tony]

>Maybe lmbench could add a feature that bw_pipe will fork CPU 
>number of children to measure the average throughput. 
>
>This will give a much reasonable result when running bw_pipe 
>on a SMP Box, at least for Linux.

bw_pipe (along with most/all of the lmbench tools already has
a "-P" argument to specify the degree of parallelism).

-Tony
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