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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:43:15 +0100
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch 0/4] Reordering of functions, try 2
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 16:23, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
>> 2) In the "processor/processes" group, 7 tests changed behavior, and the
>> average of these changes was a performance increase by 10% (!!). The
>> exception was the signal handling test, which decreased by 6%. This
>> actually made me feel good, since the original function list was based
>> on a profile run that didn't do signals much if at all.
> 
> How often did you rerun lmbench each time?

I ran it 5 times each time and then took the average of the runs
(yes that takes forever)

> In my experience the numbers
> are somewhat unstable. Still looks encouraging.


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