Subject: Re: MicroVax 3400 performance with NetBSD 1.5.1_BETA again
To: Saku Setala <setala@elisa.fi>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/27/2001 12:12:19
Try to do:
>>>D/I 25 F0
before you load the kernel, and see if it runs any faster.
The KA640 do not have any L2 cache, but it has a L1 cache which
I think I miss to enable.
-- Ragge
> Hi Ragge,
>
> some documents say that it should have 1K on-chip cache.
>
> Anyway, the same document says KA630 is 0.9 VUPS and KA640 is 2.4 VUPS.
>
> Now I get almost similar speed results with dhrystone 1.1, so there must
> be something funny?
>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>
> > > Hi again,
> > >
> > > could it be so that NetBSD does not enable the CPU cache on KA640?
> > >
> > The KA640 doesn't have a cache, so hopefully NetBSD do not try to
> > turn it on :-)
> >
> > -- Ragge
> >
>
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