Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761166AbXHAHuf (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:50:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757272AbXHAHu1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:50:27 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:56223 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756918AbXHAHu0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:50:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:50:05 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Matthew Hawkins Cc: Roland Dreier , Christoph Hellwig , Jacob Braun , kriko , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org, Martin Schwidefsky Subject: Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ? Message-ID: <20070801075005.GM3972@stusta.de> References: <930f95dc0707291431j4e50214di3c01cd44b5597502@mail.gmail.com> <20070730114649.GB19186@elte.hu> <20070730182959.GA29151@infradead.org> <20070801052513.GL3972@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 30 On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:19:36PM +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote: > On 8/1/07, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > But there's not much value in benchmarking if an important part of the > > performance critical code is in some undebuggable driver... > > In this case we don't care about the performance of the video driver. > This isn't a race to see who can get the most fps. The driver can be > thought of as a black box so long as comparative benchmarks are done > with the same driver. >... What if your "black box" e.g. uses the BKL? > Matt cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/