On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Why do you printk inside the timing period ? Filling the printk buffers > or outputting on things such as serial console could really hurt your > results.
It was easier to code? > I hope you run your system with idle=poll and without frequency scaling > at all, because otherwise your cycle count would be completely off on > many AMD and Intel CPUs. You can have a look at this (very rough) > document on the topic: The cpu will definitely not be idle during these measurements and no frequency scaling is active. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/