[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/4] lmbench: memsize: increase delay for slow FPGAs

[Yann E. MORIN]

vineet, All,

On 2021-05-17 21:53 +0000, Vineet Gupta spake thusly:
> On 5/17/21 1:09 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >
> >> OK
> >> ---
> > This triple-dash line is the usual git marker to end the actual commit
> > log, so everything below was dropped when applying the patch with git-am.
> > I've fixed that, and applied to master, thanks.
> Yep I'm aware of that and sorry - there's no easy way to "underline" 
> stuff in a patch :-)

Oh yes, there _is_. ;-)

> > However, I wonder how relevant lmbench is nowadays. Indeed, there has
> > been zero activity on lmbench source code since June 2009, almost 12
> > years ago now...
> Depends on who you ask. I think it is still relevant for embedded 
> platforms.  Especially when doing new CPU and/or ISA bringup - former we 
> tend to do regularly at Synopsys it gives you a great "snapshot" of 
> performance of 2 systems: old and new. And this is true starting from 
> fork/shell latency to memory latency and bandwidth tests which are still 
> pretty smart for something written so long ago.

Ah, yes, that makes sense, indeed.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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