Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 18:43:10 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: ejs@bfd.com, tom@sdf.com Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sio projects Message-ID: <199703030743.SAA18806@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> I'd be surprized if the fifo's are actually disabled, as it's hard to get >> unix to do better than 19.2kbaud without them. I suspect that the > > No. FreeBSD handles 57600 quite nicely on a 16450, which only has a >single byte buffer. At 115200, you may loose a few characters, but its >quite usable. It shouldn't lose any even at 115200, at least with matched UARTs and working flow control, except maybe on a 386SX/16 or with a bus-hogging (broken) bus-mastering DMA controller. My standard test is to run 2 channels at 115200 bidirectional saturated through 16450's on a 486/33 ISA system with a slow IDE drive. This generates almost 4 * 115200/10 interrupts/second and consumes 75% of the CPU. However, there is a factor of about 4 to spare (at a cost of reduced throughput) provided flow control is working. Setups with mixed (active) 16550's and 16450's don't work so well. It is possible for the 16500's to starve the 16450's. However, it probably takes more than one 16550 to do this on a 486/33. Bruce
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