> -----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;
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> 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.
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