Re: BogoMIPS

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:36:59 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> Linus,
> Will you please put this patch into some distribution on the near
> future. It fixes the bobbling BogoMIPS that different Intel machines
> produce with random cache-line refills. I can't possibly hurt anything
> since it's just two jumps before the delay-loop.

It doesn't help anything. This small patch just makes it jitter in
different ways.

2.0.34+ has the right approach, but I haven't bothered to port it to
2.1.x, and apparently nobody else has either.

Linus

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