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commit bb7cf681e90d5aa2d867aeff4948ac605447de7d
Author: Ondrej Bilka <neleai@seznam.cz>
Date:   Wed May 8 08:21:05 2013 +0200

    Preheat CPU in benchtests.
    
    A benchmark could be skewed by CPU initialy working on minimal
    frequency and speeding up later. We first run code in loop
    to partialy fix this issue.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fa12634..c681271 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-05-08  OndÅ?ej Bílka  <neleai@seznam.cz>
+
+	* benchtests/bench-skeleton.c (main): Preheat CPU.
+
 2013-05-07  Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
 
 	* misc/sys/param.h (DEV_BSIZE): Define only if not already defined.
diff --git a/benchtests/bench-skeleton.c b/benchtests/bench-skeleton.c
index 7359184..a13ad02 100644
--- a/benchtests/bench-skeleton.c
+++ b/benchtests/bench-skeleton.c
@@ -22,6 +22,21 @@
 #include <time.h>
 #include <inttypes.h>
 
+volatile unsigned int dontoptimize = 0;
+void startup ()
+{
+  /* This loop should cause CPU to switch to maximal freqency.
+     This makes subsequent measurement more accurate.  We need a side effect
+     to prevent the loop being deleted by compiler.
+     This should be enough to cause CPU to speed up and it is simpler than
+     running loop for constant time. This is used when user does not have root
+     access to set a constant freqency.  */
+
+  int k;
+  for (k = 0; k < 10000000; k++)
+    dontoptimize += 23 * dontoptimize + 2;
+}
+
 #define TIMESPEC_AFTER(a, b) \
   (((a).tv_sec == (b).tv_sec) ?						      \
      ((a).tv_nsec > (b).tv_nsec) :					      \
@@ -32,6 +47,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   unsigned long i, k;
   struct timespec start, end, runtime;
 
+  startup();
+
   memset (&runtime, 0, sizeof (runtime));
   memset (&start, 0, sizeof (start));
   memset (&end, 0, sizeof (end));

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog                   |    4 ++++
 benchtests/bench-skeleton.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


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