The bogomips is a really bad estimate of performance (hence 'bogo'). There's considerable difference in the bogomips calculation even between different ARM suba

The bogomips is a really bad estimate of performance (hence 'bogo'). There's considerable difference in the bogomips calculation even between different ARM subarchitectures. There was a good article about the issue recently in LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/628531/ http://lwn.net/Articles/628531/