From: Juhan Ernits <juhan@cc.ioc.ee>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Machines misreporting Bogomips
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 00:05:14 +0200 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0202032356340.21280-100000@suhkur.cc.ioc.ee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.42.0202011831170.6556-100000@egg>
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Greg Boyce wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > The machine is reporting that the cache is enabled. Even if this was
> > > true, I have trouble believing that turning on the cache would result in a
> > > 50,000% increase in speed (4 bogomips compared to 500).
> >
> > L1 and L2 cache both disabled comes up as about 2.5 bogomips typically on
> > a Pentium II/III.
> >
> Would a machine with L1 cache disabled, but with 512K of L2 cache report
> around 4 Bogomips, or would the performance hit not be that strong?
May be the following experiences are relevant:
- a Pentium MMX 200 MHz with burned L1 cache. It was worse than a 386 with
turbo switch turned off (didn-t have time to measure bogomips, just had it
replaced).
- a PIII 850 with L2 cache turned off appeared comparable to a 433
MHz Celeron (860 BogoMips) while with L2 cache turned on it showed 1684
BogoMips.
So that would confirm that the snaillike behaviour of your systems has
something to do with either _burned_ of disabled L1 cache, not L2 cache.
Best regards,
Juhan Ernits
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-03 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-31 22:55 Machines misreporting Bogomips Greg Boyce
2002-01-31 23:21 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-01-31 23:30 ` Roger Larsson
2002-02-01 0:11 ` Greg Boyce
2002-02-01 9:59 ` Horst von Brand
2002-02-01 17:11 ` Greg Boyce
2002-02-01 12:59 ` gmack
2002-02-01 20:53 ` Greg Boyce
2002-02-01 23:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-01 23:34 ` Greg Boyce
2002-02-01 23:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-03 22:05 ` Juhan Ernits [this message]
2002-02-03 7:39 ` watermodem
2002-02-08 17:13 ` Andrew Scott
[not found] <no.id>
2002-02-03 21:40 ` Barry K. Nathan
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