On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Renato Golin renato.golin@linaro.org wrote:
The reason is that the kernel, although stable, is only just because it throttles speed to a minimum. So, the core runs at 920MHz and the memory bus is at its minimum frequency. Nick gathers we could speed it up by a factor of 30% and 40% respectively while remaining on the safety zone.
I have re-run my benchmark because i wasn't happy with what i had told you.. i had taken the 40% improvement from an early benchmark i did at low speed. so, i have executed the benchmark at 918Mhz instead. For reference, the benchmark is:
sysbench --test=cpu --max-requests=50000 --num-threads=4 --max-time=15 run
I don't know how good/bad this is as a benchmark.. but it seemed ok for my 2-cent benchmarking.
The benchmark report min/avg/max time it took to process 1 request during the test run.
At 918Mhz, using the vendor 3.4 kernel, i am seeing (in ms):
25.02/26.05/31.89
And with our current 'mainline' kernel, i am getting:
25.14/58.72/121.67
and it's quite consistent over multiple runs. So it's much more than 40% actually.. if we apply these ratios we get theoretical numbers that makes more sense... the ifc6410 should definitely be faster than panda..
cheers nico