more bogomips :)

Christian Kujau lists at nerdbynature.de
Sun Mar 25 02:48:37 EST 2007


I know bogomips are kinda "bogus by definition", but I'll ask anyway, 
out of curiosity:

--- ppc-cpuinfo.2.6.20-rc6      2007-01-27 12:33:00.000000000 +0000
+++ ppc-cpuinfo.2.6.21-rc4-git6 2007-03-24 16:25:26.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
  processor      : 0
  cpu            : 7447A, altivec supported
-clock          : 1199.999997MHz
+clock          : 1199.999000MHz
  revision       : 0.1 (pvr 8003 0101)
-bogomips       : 36.73
+bogomips       : 73.47
  timebase       : 18432000
  platform       : PowerMac
  machine                : PowerBook6,5

It seems that with a more recent kernel, bogomips have doubled (both 
with CONFIG_HZ=1000, if this matters). How comes?

Thanks,
Christian
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