FYI, please see attached patch.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:32 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote:

> The timing is per-operation, not per total run. Even if we get one timer
> interrupt in there, it's going to be one bad data point. I'm fine with
> that.
>
> But, me, i'm only taking 128 samples. I think that's more the enough and
> it runs in maybe several dozen microseconds.
>
> ron
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 3:29 PM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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