[BENCHMARK] ctxbench and SYSENTER discussion

[Bill Davidsen]

I changed the report generator for ctxbench slightly after the recent 
discussions of system call methods. I added a column of context loop rate 
divided by MHz of the processor, and ran on the same or similar 2.4 
kernels (this is a hardware thing, version matters only a little).

What it showed was a piss-poor value for the P4, best for my old P-II 
Celeron, and Athlon vs. P-III closely swapping third place. In fact the P4 
had a value about 3x slower than the P-II.

If someone wants to run the benchmark with the old and new system call 
setup it might be useful to quantify the gain.

Benchmark is at www.unyuug.org/benchmarks, and if someone tests this I'd 
like a copy of the raw results for my collection as well as the extract 
posted to lkml.

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bill davidsen, CTO TMR Associates, Inc <[e-mail]>
  Having the feature freeze for Linux 2.5 on Hallow'een is appropriate,
since using 2.5 kernels includes a lot of things jumping out of dark
corners to scare you.