Re: Speed Analysis Util.

[Gustavo da Silva <gustavodasilva@xxxxxxxxx>]

*mensure: measure!! Sorry about it and other typo.

2012/12/8 Gustavo da Silva <gustavodasilva@xxxxxxxxx>

Hello Kernel Brothers!! How are you???

So, I would like test the performance of my notebook, developing one or two utilities, and have a better

mensurement about the speed.

But it can help all of us.

1st: I would like mensure the speed making a counter (exacly bogomips? may be). Loop+counter during 1 tickrate.

2nd: The most interesting: How many memory cells in ram can we access during 1tickrate? How could we develop this?!

Both utils may run in long mode (64bits). Well, in real mode too; so, we can compare the speed in the two modes!

Some one knows how to develop a very small program/routine about that?!

For the 2nd situation, a simple idea wrote in codesnipet form (consider the intention, not the sintax! there are bugs! I know. Intel syntax.)

  dw the_counter_cell 0

  lea bx, the_counter_cell

  xor bx,bx

label:

  inc [bx]    # Could not be so simple like this, because the address can be cached. Right?

  loop label # breaked by an interruption. Just to express the intention.

How could we create a small code for the 2nd situation, tring to force the processor to not use the cache?

Regards.

Peace out.

--
Atenciosamente,

Gustavo da Silva
gustavodasilva@xxxxxxxxx

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Atenciosamente, 

Gustavo da Silva
gustavodasilva@xxxxxxxxx
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