Subject: RE: MicroVax 3400 performance with NetBSD 1.5.1_BETA again
To: 'Saku Setala' , Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Carlini, Antonio <Antonio.Carlini@riverstonenet.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/27/2001 02:06:55
I have a note that it has a 1KB cache too.
I *believe* that it is the same CVAX chip
that the KA650 used and that does have a 1KB on-chip
cache.

Antonio

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saku Setala [mailto:setala@elisa.fi]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:57 AM
> To: Anders Magnusson
> Cc: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: MicroVax 3400 performance with NetBSD 1.5.1_BETA again
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> Hi Ragge,
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> some documents say that it should have 1K on-chip cache.
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> Anyway, the same document says KA630 is 0.9 VUPS and KA640 is=20
> 2.4 VUPS.
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> Now I get almost similar speed results with dhrystone 1.1, so=20
> there must
> be something funny?
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> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Anders Magnusson wrote:
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> > > Hi again,
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> > > could it be so that NetBSD does not enable the CPU cache on =
KA640?
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> > The KA640 doesn't have a cache, so hopefully NetBSD do not try to
> > turn it on :-)
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> > -- Ragge
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