[RFC] ARM: lib: delay-loop: Add align directive to fix BogoMIPS calculation

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Sat Nov 30 09:31:33 EST 2013


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> Any chance that you could run hackbench, and build the kernel with
> -falign-functions=32, comparing the kernel without and with this
> option ?
>
> If alignment has as much effect as the above suggests, the results
> may be interesting.

Yes, that would be interesting to know.

I will try to run this test next week, or maybe Tom Evans could try it
sooner if he has a chance.

>
> As far as this patch is concerned, I'm happy with it, please put it in
> the patch system, thanks.

Sent it as 7907/1.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list