Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750717AbWJLU3U (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:29:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750820AbWJLU3U (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:29:20 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:44515 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750717AbWJLU3T (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:29:19 -0400 Subject: Re: Can context switches be faster? From: Arjan van de Ven To: John Richard Moser Cc: Chris Friesen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <452EA441.6070703@comcast.net> References: <452E62F8.5010402@comcast.net> <452E9E47.8070306@nortel.com> <452EA441.6070703@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:29:14 +0200 Message-Id: <1160684954.3000.473.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 540 Lines: 18 > ther uniprocessor machines. > > > > That's a load more descriptive :D > > 0.890 uS, 0.556uS/cycle, that's barely 2 cycles you know. (Pentium M) > PPC performs similarly, 1 cycle should be about 1uS. > > > Chris you have your units off; 1 cycle is 1 nS not 1 uS (or 0.556 nS for the pM) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/