[PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc/selftest: Add gettimeofday() benchmark

Denis Kirjanov kda at linux-powerpc.org
Fri Sep 25 19:28:30 AEST 2015


On 9/25/15, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Friday 25 September 2015 14:01:39 Michael Neuling wrote:
>> This adds a benchmark directory to the powerpc selftests and adds a
>> gettimeofday() benchmark to it.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
>>
>
> Any reason for keeping this powerpc specific? It seems generally useful.
> and portable.
You're right. Moreover, we can put some comment to the benchmark why
we've made such decision to add it (reference to the commit
"powerpc/vdso: Avoid link stack corruption in __get_datapage()")

>
> 	Arnd
>


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