-Rob
On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 p0thead@ooz.net wrote:
>
> > I'm a little confuised.. I just tried to run this on my nexgen-90, and it
> ^^^^^^
> This chip is the NexGen-P90. To almost all programs, it looks like a
> '386. It was the first pentium clone on the market - released before the
> rdtsc instruction was known of - thus the patch fails. As far as I know,
> it only knows '386 ('486?) instructions. It was originally designed in
> the days of the '386, but was delayed.
> > gave me this:
> >
> > [root@metallica /root]# ./mhz.estimate
> > Illegal Instruction (core dumped)
> >
> > Now, does this program only work on pentium's, i'm a little confused.
> >
> > -Robg
> >
> > On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> >
> > > Phile Brutsche wrote:
> > > >On another note, I just looked at your patch. It uses the rdtsc
> > > >instruction; this instruction does not exist on anything less than a
> > > >Pentium. I'm not sure what the kernel would do on '486 or '386, but it
> > > >would'nt be pretty. A better solution for this would be to time the bsf
> > > >instruction on those chips. I have source in C and assembly if you need
> > > >help.
> > >
> > > Can you mail that to me at the return address?
> > >
> > > Currently I'm using this userspace code I pieced together myself (well,
> > > not the rdtsc function, I ripped that from the I/O Port Programming HOWTO)
> > > which is so consistent that it's making me wonder if my motherboard clock
> > > chip is a little bit off and is actually running my CPU at 99.57mhz
> > > instead of 100. (I gave this program to several other people with pentiums
> > > and it seems to consistently report either high and low depending on the
> > > system.)
> > >
> > > mercury:~$ (while :; do mhz.estimate; done)
> > > 99.569984 MHz processor.
> > > 99.569979 MHz processor.
> > > 99.570001 MHz processor.
> > > 99.569946 MHz processor.
> > >
> > > Kinda makes you wonder about those motherboard benchmarks where all the
> > > motherboards are within a few tenths of a percent of each other. :)
> > >
> > > Compile as usual, gcc mhz.estimate.c -o mhz.estimate.
> > >
> > > #include <stdio.h>
> > > #include <sys/time.h>
> > >
> > > /* returns number of clock cycles since last reboot */
> > > __inline__ unsigned long long int rdtsc()
> > > {
> > > unsigned long long int x;
> > > __asm__ volatile (".byte 0x0f, 0x31" : "=A" (x));
> > > return x;
> > > }
> > >
> > > main ()
> > > {
> > > struct timezone tz;
> > > struct timeval tvstart, tvstop;
> > > unsigned long long int cycles[2]; /* gotta be 64 bit */
> > > unsigned int microseconds; /* total time taken */
> > >
> > > bzero(&tz, sizeof(tz));
> > >
> > > /* get this function in cached memory */
> > > gettimeofday(&tvstart, &tz);
> > > cycles[0] = rdtsc();
> > > gettimeofday(&tvstart, &tz);
> > >
> > > /* we don't trust that this is any specific length of time */
> > > sleep(1);
> > >
> > > cycles[1] = rdtsc();
> > > gettimeofday(&tvstop, &tz);
> > > microseconds = ((tvstop.tv_sec-tvstart.tv_sec)*1000000) +
> > > (tvstop.tv_usec-tvstart.tv_usec);
> > >
> > > printf("%f MHz processor.\n",
> > > (float)(cycles[1]-cycles[0])/microseconds);
> > > }
> > > --
> > > Robert Woodcock - robert@olex.com
> > > All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
> > > -- Ashleigh Brilliant
> > >
> >
> >
>
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