Subject: Re: Faster pipes, now with uvm_loan()
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/25/2001 11:33:11
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:33:19AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:40:24AM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> > [...]
> > I notice that people haven't been showing latency results (from
> > lat_pipe) - but it's good to see those numbers better too on
> > these two platforms.
> 
> I didn't notice lat_pipe :)
> Hree are updated results:
> Vax (MicroVAX 3300, KA640 CPU):
> text    data    bss     dec     hex     filename
> 813688  19256   158120  991064  f1f58   netbsd-newpipe
> 809764  19224   157852  986840  f0ed8   netbsd-oldpipe 
> old pipes: Pipe bandwidth: 0.85 MB/sec Pipe latency: 3099.0735 microseconds
> new pipes: Pipe bandwidth: 8.85 MB/sec Pipe latency: 3006.7038 microseconds
> 
> Next68k (68040@25Mhz):
> text    data    bss     dec     hex     filename
> 960176  44964   147856  1152996 1197e4  netbsd-newpipe
> 955496  44932   147588  1148016 118470  netbsd-oldpipe
> old pipes: Pipe bandwidth: 1.12 MB/sec Pipe latency: 1151.4129 microseconds
> new pipes: Pipe bandwidth: 3.59 MB/sec Pipe latency:  702.0503 microseconds

Is this right?  A MicroVAX is has better than twice the pipe bandwidth
of a 68040?

jf
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