On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 11:37 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:28:30PM +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote: > > On 9/25/15, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > > > On Friday 25 September 2015 14:01:39 Michael Neuling wrote: > > >> This adds a benchmark directory to the powerpc selftests and adds a > > >> gettimeofday() benchmark to it. > > >> > > >> Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> > > >> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mi...@neuling.org> > > >> > > > > > > Any reason for keeping this powerpc specific? It seems generally useful. > > > and portable. > > You're right. Moreover, we can put some comment to the benchmark why > > we've made such decision to add it (reference to the commit > > "powerpc/vdso: Avoid link stack corruption in __get_datapage()") > > Why gettimeofday? Isn't clock_gettime the modern variant?
We can do either here really. I just wanted to test __get_datapage() really. I just stole the benchmark from Anton, which turned into mpe wanting it in selftests. I dumped it in powerpc mostly because I knew mpe would take it (ie. I'm was being lazy). > BTW: dows anyone receive 2 copies of every messge in this thread ? I'm not. Mikey > > I do, and I suspect that this is due to the Cc: list having both > linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org and linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org. I removed the > former for this reply. > > Gabriel _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
