Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755254AbXHVALx (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:11:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750843AbXHVALp (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:11:45 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:35204 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750779AbXHVALp (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:11:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:11:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Mathieu Desnoyers cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLUB use cmpxchg_local In-Reply-To: <20070822000323.GG29691@Krystal> Message-ID: References: <20070820215413.GA28452@Krystal> <20070821173849.GA8360@Krystal> <20070821231216.GA29691@Krystal> <20070821233938.GD29691@Krystal> <20070821234702.GE29691@Krystal> <20070822000323.GG29691@Krystal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 18 On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > - Rounding error.. you seem to round at 0.1ms, but I keep the values in > cycles. The times that you get (1.1ms) seems strangely higher than > mine, which are under 1000 cycles on a 3GHz system (less than 333ns). > I guess there is both a ms - ns error there and/or not enough > precision in your numbers. Nope the rounding for output is depending on the amount. Rounds to one digit after whatever unit we figured out is best to display. And multiplications (cyc2ns) do not result in rounding errors. - 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/