Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 16:00:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: wscott@ichips.intel.com (Wayne Scott) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org, nisha@cs.berkeley.edu, marc@bowtie.nl, ken@area238.residence.gatech.edu, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, pattrsn@cs.berkeley.edu, culler@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: more on fast bcopy Message-ID: <199605072300.QAA02669@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199605071845.LAA03457@ichips.intel.com> from Wayne Scott at "May 7, 96 11:48:28 am"
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> > Yes, indeed, this is very interesting. I guess whatever I'm doing > > with all this is going to be moot once we all move to P6's. ;) > > > > By the way, I assume the external clock of the 200MHz P6 is 66MHz, is > > this correct? The memory copy speed of this machine seems to be > > slower than the Triton-based P5-133 that we have (see below). Do you > > know where the "B-step" Orion stands on the maturity curve, in terms > > of memory access speed? > > The problem is that I gave you numbers on a lower performance desktop > machine. > > On a high performance box with 4-way interleaved memory I get the > following: > > size bandwidth > 32 46.376812 MB/s > 64 43.243243 MB/s yes this dip is expected > 128 46.376812 MB/s > 256 57.142857 MB/s > 512 64.000000 MB/s > 1024 66.666667 MB/s > 2048 69.565217 MB/s > 4096 69.565217 MB/s > 8192 71.111111 MB/s Thats pretty cruddy for 4 way interleaved memory, 1/120nS * 8 bytes/leave * 4 leaves == 266MB/sec. And I used the worst case there by using the 120nS full cycle time, if these are sequentail accesses that hit the same DRAM page this number should be up closer to 500MB/sec. ... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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