Re: [PATCH] Use x86 SSE instructions for clear_page, copy_page

[David S. Miller]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:40:06 +0200
Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> What is a set of useful benchmarks to find out which approach
> is better?

Time kernel builds on an otherwise totally idle machine.
Do multiple runs so that the cache gets loaded and you're
testing the memory accesses rather than disk reads.
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