Some benchmarks on ARM

[Colin Tuckley]

> -----Original Message-----
> kernel-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Robert Schwebel
> Sent: 02 July 2010 19:03

> We have recently made some benchmarks, in order to get a little bit
> better fealing about where ARM cpus are today, especially when it comes
> to the "recent" ones, and in comparism to the Atom. So we collected a
> few benchmarks (most from lmbench) and did some actual measurements.

You have the family wrong for (at least) the Cortex-A8, it's a v7. This probably accounts for some of it's slow relative performance since you probably used incorrect compiler switches.

> All measurements have been done on 2.6.34.

How were the kernels compiled? Was thumb mode used for the ones that support it?

You didn't mention the cache state anywhere - it can make a big difference.

Regards,

Colin

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