> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry McVoy > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:05 AM > To: Linus Torvalds > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Luck, Tony; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org; Kernel Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Lmbench-users] Re: pipe performance regression on ia64 > > I'm very unthrilled with the idea of adding stuff to the release benchmark > which is OS specific. That said, there is nothing to say that you can't > grab the benchmark and tweak your own test case in there to prove or > disprove your theory. >
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. Zou Nan hai - 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/
