I'd just compare a recent kernel with something older, pre Fri Oct 19
11:53:44 2007
Then download ctxbench, run one instance on each core, bound with taskset.
http://www.tmr.com/%7Epublic/source/
(I don't juse ctxbench myself, if it doesn't work then I could post my
own app. It would be i386 only with RDTSCs inside)
I'll try to run it on my PentiumIII/850, right now I'm still setting
everything up.
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Manfred
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