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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:29:12 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: call for testers: busdma-ified fxp(4) driver
Message-ID:  <20030407092641.Q10413-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net>
In-Reply-To: <16015.12744.366625.974350@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>
> Fred Clift writes:
>  >
>  > Honestly I'm suprised there is so much difference between the before and
>  > after and I'm doubting my testing methodology -- perhaps I had the duplex
>
> My guess is that the old kernel has WITNESS enabled and the new kernel
> does not.
>
> Even a 600MHz 21264 is maxed out at 75Mb/sec with WITNESS enabled.
> 50% idle without.

Could be -- I thought I used the same kernel config file, but I could be
mistaken...  No big deal as the new driver works...

Fred

--
Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute
force doesn't work, you're just not using enough.



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