On Fri, 27 Dec 96 18:11:08 CST Dave Huang writes
> There's been a lot of work on the FreeBSD ncr driver recently, so I
> decided to merge the changes into the NetBSD driver before they
> diverged too much :)
 
I build a new kernel with the FreeBSD changes and noticed a marked increase 
in performance of my Quantum Grand Prix drive (XP34301 - 4GB).

Bonnie results below:
              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- 
--Random--
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- 
--Seeks---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec 
%CPU
curent    100  2326 82.2  2607 14.3  1179 13.4  2500 57.3  2660 15.0  56.9  
4.4
w/ patch  100  2716 96.9  3883 22.6  1451 15.9  3732 85.4  4016 22.0  71.0  
5.3

It would be nice if these changes could be rolled into the source tree.

BTW, the machine is a Pentium 120 with 64Mb.

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Andreas Wrede              Planix, Inc.
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