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Date:      Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:36:27 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Please test: ACPI-CA import 20050408
Message-ID:  <20050415173627.GQ4842@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <5e7c3d2084ff2460d6e48786defc8f33@xcllnt.net>
References:  <20050414103154.GA11341@laptop.santcroos.net> <20050414135004.GB75334@unixpages.org> <20050414172147.GA772@laptop.santcroos.net> <ec58b3fb7d113741a2bf8e450a2a4d35@xcllnt.net> <20050415162821.GA691@laptop.santcroos.net> <5e7c3d2084ff2460d6e48786defc8f33@xcllnt.net>

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In the last episode (Apr 15), Marcel Moolenaar said:
> On Apr 15, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Mark Santcroos wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:20:52AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >>BTW: Is ACPICA getting slower?
> >
> > Might be. I don't have numbers on that. I guess we're still
> > focusing on functionality and not so much on speed. Do you have a
> > concrete area where you think we are loosing performance?
> 
> No, not yet. It's just that there are 2 "dead" spots in the booting
> process of the plutos we have in the cluster and these "dead" spots
> appeared to be longer. I think there's a lot of AML interpretation
> going on during that time, but I might be wrong.

What I have personally seen is a long delay in bus_alloc_resource() on
some older Dell machines (desktop and laptop, both under 500Mhz).  If I
apply the attached patch, I see between 15 and 20 rows of identical
output, and each call to b_a_r takes a noticeable fraction of a second
(i.e. the cursor spends most of its time after an IRQ, not after a 'y'
or 'n'.) The delays probably add 45 seconds total to the boot time.

Newer systems will just generate 4 or 5 lines total for the entire boot
process.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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Index: acpi_pci_link.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/acpica/acpi_pci_link.c,v
retrieving revision 1.24.2.6
diff -u -p -r1.24.2.6 acpi_pci_link.c
--- acpi_pci_link.c	7 Nov 2004 20:24:05 -0000	1.24.2.6
+++ acpi_pci_link.c	9 Nov 2004 03:43:52 -0000
@@ -804,17 +804,22 @@ acpi_pci_link_update_irq_penalty(device_
 
 			/* XXX try to get this IRQ in non-sharable mode. */
 			rid = 0;
+			printf("%d", irq);
 			res = bus_alloc_resource(dev, SYS_RES_IRQ,
 						 &rid, irq, irq, 1, 0);
 			if (res != NULL) {
+				printf("y");
 				bus_release_resource(dev, SYS_RES_IRQ,
 				    rid, res);
+				printf(" ");
 			} else {
 				/* this is in use, give 10. */
 				irq_penalty[irq] += 10;
+				printf("n ");
 			}
 		}
 
+		printf("\n");
 		/* initialize `sorted' possible IRQs. */
 		bcopy(link->interrupts, link->sorted_irq,
 		    sizeof(link->sorted_irq));

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