[PATCH 0/6 rth/hpt] hp-timing cleanups

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Thu Jun 26 04:37:00 GMT 2014


On 06/25/2014 03:38 PM, David Miller wrote:
> No objections, but it's a shame that the overhead value is not used
> instead of being accounted for when timings are made.

How large is the value for sparc?

It's zero for aarch64 and alpha; perhaps 10 cycles for x86_64.
Which, when we're timing anything in ld.so is definitely lost
in the noise.


r~



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