Re: Choosing the timer to use in benchmarking

On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 07:43 +1200, Michael Hope wrote:

I was quite impressed with how steady the process clock was under different CPU loads. It doesn't seem to round up or down to a scheduler tick either which is nice.

Hmm. Very interesting results! Its been a little while since I've looked into the cpu time accounting, but I'd be hesitant to trust that it has finer then HZ granularity everywhere. I know that has been an issue in the past. I'll have to look into it.

thanks -john