cvs commit: src/test/cpuperf Makefile cpu_add.S cpu_call.S cpu_cmpadd.S cpu_cmpexg.S cpu_lcmpexg.S cputest.c src/test/sysperf blib.c blib.h

[Matthew Dillon]

:Some ssh sessions, ica client, that's about it.  Within X.
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:>    The timing
:>    tests are very, very sensitive.  The second addl
:>    taking 77nS is the locked add instruction?  Obviously not
:>    the 3 x addl $1,%eax, not at 77ns :-).  I've gotten negative
:>    numbers from the first addl test, but I've never gotten 
:>    negative numbers from the call/ret test.
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:ls /tmp/cpu*, that order I ran them.
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:And yea, I've done it about 6-7 times and 5/7th are negative.
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:Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> / asmodai / kita no mono

    If you see any mistakes I'm all ears.  I aligned the assembly code but
    maybe the main loop in C is broken and needs to be aligned as well.
    Try using -O or gcc3.  We could be seeing cache line alignment effects.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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