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

[David Miller]

From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:37:19 -0700

> 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.

Yeah it's 10 cycles or less on sparc.