An example of using RDTSC and CPUID to measure performance

Descriptions

• According to How to Benchmark Code Execution Times on Intel® IA-32 and IA-64 Instruction Set Architectures.

Downloads

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Results

• Loading hello module...
  loop_size:0 >>>> variance(cycles): 36990; max_deviation: 60472 ;min time: 476
  loop_size:1 >>>> variance(cycles): 30499; max_deviation: 52876 ;min time: 480
  loop_size:2 >>>> variance(cycles): 2974050; max_deviation: 540140 ;min time: 476
  .........
  .........
  loop_size:997 >>>> variance(cycles): 931008; max_deviation: 304056 ;min time: 472
  loop_size:998 >>>> variance(cycles): 989013; max_deviation: 304684 ;min time: 460
  loop_size:999 >>>> variance(cycles): 2738977; max_deviation: 302940 ;min time: 448
  
  total number of spurious min values = 268
  total variance = 8371656
  absolute max deviation = 63107276
  variance of variances = 17465975709446
  variance of minimum values = 195
  

Comments

• The result is worse than the original one. I guess that's because i discard the code to disable the preemption and hard interrupts and run in user mode.
• Advanced version:
  An example of using RDTSC, CPUID and RDTSCP to measure performance

Resources

• How to Benchmark Code Execution Times on Intel® IA-32 and IA-64 Instruction Set Architectures