Intel Spots A 3888.9% Performance Improvement In The Linux Kernel From One Line Of Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Spots A 3888.9% Performance Improvement In The Linux Kernel From One Line Of Code

Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-3888.9-Performance

[fong38]

...wow

[Smurphy]

... yeah, Wow

[V1tol]

...now we see if that change makes difference in a real-life workloads

[Alexmitter]

The issue I see with things like that is that people belive their system will now be 3888.9% times faster. No that is not what that means. It means some specific task inside the kernel will now be 3888.9% times faster and it has to show if that will make the kernel actually messurably faster.

[aerospace]

Does AMD have a kernel robot?

[mush]

The issue I see with things like that is that people belive their system will now be 3888.9% times faster. No that is not what that means. It means some specific task inside the kernel will now be 3888.9% times faster and it has to show if that will make the kernel actually messurably faster.

Neither the report or the article is for the average pc user, so i don't see what's the problem

[geerge]

The issue I see with things like that is that people belive their system will now be 3888.9% times faster. No that is not what that means. It means some specific task inside the kernel will now be 3888.9% times faster and it has to show if that will make the kernel actually messurably faster.

The kind of people that think like that also eat paste. If the statistics are being used to intentionally mislead (as all stats can) then there's an issue, is that the case?

[waxhead]

The issue I see with things like that is that people belive their system will now be 3888.9% times faster. No that is not what that means. It means some specific task inside the kernel will now be 3888.9% times faster and it has to show if that will make the kernel actually messurably faster.

Exactly and very few think "3888.9% of what". If the code previously executed at 0.001ms every 240 seconds on average it would hardly be noticeable at all even with the improvement.

That being said it is still a nice improvement.

[ddriver]

Amd is toast then!!!