I'm still testing on linux. Akaros comes later :-)

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 2:59 PM Barret Rhoden <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2016-03-28 at 21:46 ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
> > https://github.com/akaros/fputest
> >
> >
> > We're getting there. It's now using gcc intrinsics, which hopefully
> > are more correct. Still trying to get sane timing for the "no op"
> > case.
>
> i'd be concerned if the intrinsics are right and our own versions are
> wrong.  hopefully that won't be the case after this gets sorted out.
>
>
> given that n = 1000000 and rdtsc alone takes O(30) ticks, you're
> probably getting interference from the timer IRQ, even on Akaros Core 0.
> here's two quick things to try:
>
> call uthread_mcp_init() somewhere in main.  that'll make you an MCP.
> it's a bit hacky.  verify that it's working with a ps or pip.
>
> check your tsc overhead against __procinfo.timing_overhead or against
> the console output during boot, e.g.
>
>         TSC overhead (Min: 32, Max: 36)
>
> i didn't look at any of the actual FPU stuff for issues yet.
>
> barret
>
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