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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Mon, 9 Jan 2023 20:59:32 +0100
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Subject: Re: Dhrystone -- userland version
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Hi Pavel,

On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 8:51 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > >   count=1666675 us50=20178 us250=99913 diff=79735 cpu_MHz=4180.536 tsc50=42614718 tsc250=211016124 diff=101 rdtsc_MHz=2112.014
> > >
> > > It's also what's used by sbc-bench to verify that CPU vendors are not
> > > cheating in the embedded world. It's very simple, and not arch-dependent
> > > nor compiler-dependent (at least as long as you don't build at -O0 :-)).
> >
> > Seeing the rdtsc stuff, I was a bit skeptical, but it seems to work
> > fine on arm32 and rv64.
> >
> > Unfortunately you forgot to add a LICENSE file ;-)
> >
> > Alternatively, I can use the C version of BogoMIPS.  Which has its
> > own merits and reputation.
>
> I'd expect BogoMIPS to be _much_ worse than Dhrystone. If all the
> cores are same, it should be good enough, but...

Both give different results when run on little vs. big cores.
That's why my in-kernel version prints the CPU number, and supports
running multiple benchmarks in parallel.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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