[ Thanks to Jeremy
Andrews for this link. ]
“Mark Wong posted a series of benchmark results from Rusty
Russell’s Hackbench. Rusty describes Hackbench as a minimized ‘chat
benchmark’ that doesn’t use threads or semaphores. The benchmark
launches groups of processes that each listen on a given socket,
and complimentary groups of processes that write 100 messages to
each of the listening sockets. The resulting metric is an average
of the time this takes.“Mark’s results begin with the 2.5.28 development kernel and
continue up through the current 2.6.0-test5 kernel. In a second
email he also offers results of the -mm tree, beginning with
2.5.66-mm1 and continuing up through 2.6.0-test5-mm2. Andrew Morton
glanced at the results and commented that they looked ‘great, but
tragically incomprehensible,’ going on to ask for an explanation,
‘do we rock or do we suck?’ Mark replied, ‘the general trend in the
metric indicates everything has been improving, so I think we
rock…'”