From 8afab5af86c990e70bd44a92bf6a875828f99928 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sathishkumar S Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 20:21:06 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] fix(linux): Clarify Dhrystone is single-core scoring Clarify Dhrystone is single-core score and fix grammar in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Sathishkumar S --- .../devices/AM62X/linux/Linux_Performance_Guide.rst | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/devices/AM62X/linux/Linux_Performance_Guide.rst b/source/devices/AM62X/linux/Linux_Performance_Guide.rst index 1ae273ebb..52c628284 100644 --- a/source/devices/AM62X/linux/Linux_Performance_Guide.rst +++ b/source/devices/AM62X/linux/Linux_Performance_Guide.rst @@ -192,11 +192,15 @@ Dhrystone ========= Dhrystone is a core only benchmark that runs from warm L1 caches in all -modern processors. It scales linearly with clock speed. +modern processors. It scales linearly with clock speed. This is a single +core score depending on the current cpu clock frequency. The total DMIPS +for all cores is at best the number of cores multiplied by the single core +score. -Please take note, different run may produce different slightly results. -This is advised to run this test multiple times in order to get maximum -performance numbers. + +Please take note, different runs may produce slightly different results. +It is advised to run this test multiple times in order to get maximum +performance numbers or to average out the results from many trials. Execute the benchmark with the following: