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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:09:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] Corrected gcc3.2 v gcc2.95.3 contest results
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 
> > > It would sure be nice for this sortof test if there were
> > > some sort of a "flush-all-caches" syscall...
> > 
> > I think all you need to do is reload the code-segment register
> > and you end up flushing caches in ix86.
> 
> i'm pretty sure what was meant was the flushing of the pagecache mainly.
> The state of CPU caches does not really play in these several-minutes
> benchmarks, they are at most a few millisecs worth of CPU time to build.
> 

Okay. Sorry about that.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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