Re: BogoMIPS

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:28:45 +0200


Hi!

> > > This works and gets rid of the two jmps that everybody complained
> > > about.
> >
> > Are you sure? I saw reports where it depended on place in _page_
> > (imagine udelay loop at page boundary). So you maybe should .align
> > PAGE_SIZE.
>
> I presume this is a joke.

Sorry, it is not. Someone shown timings of empty loop at they were
dependend on placement of code in page. (It gives plenty of sense if
code happens to cross page boundary.)

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