Re: Benchmarks

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jan 03 2006 - 16:35:29 EST


On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 16:34 -0500, Sharma Sushant wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> If someone make some modifications to kernel code and want to know how much
> overead those modifications has caused, what are the benchmarks that one
> should use to calculate the overhead of the added code.
> please cc the reply to me.

it really depends on what area of the kernel you're changing.. there's
no "golden" benchmark that tests the entire kernel and gives one nice
answer... there are however a lot of smaller benchmarks that test a
portion of the kernel....

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