It took me a while, but I have done some tests om my system with and
without my patch applied.
All deamons but klogd/syslogd were shut down andI used the following
command:
LMBENCH_SCHED="SINGLE" \
/usr/lib/lmbench/bin/{i686-pc,x86_64}-linux-gnu/lat_ctx -s 0 2
The variation was quite high so I ran it a 1000 times for each
configuration.
x86_32, patch applied, 1000x repeated, avg: 1.319, rmse: 0.081
x86_32, patch not applied, 1000x repeated, avg: 1.335, rmse: 0.107
x86_64, patch applied, 1000x repeated, avg: 1.417, rmse: 0.0716
x86_64, patch not applied, 1000x repeated, avg: 1.423, rmse: 0.0745
This is on a core 2 duo E6300.