From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 21 23:39:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA05011 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 23:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA05005 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 23:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA19095; Thu, 22 May 1997 16:09:08 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705220639.QAA19095@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: isa bus and boca multiport boards In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970521231026.006bae9c@lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "May 21, 97 11:10:26 pm" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:09:07 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rberndt@nething.com, WELCHDW@wofford.edu, HARDWARE@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brett Glass stands accused of saying: > At 01:45 PM 5/22/97 +0930, Michael Smith wrote: > > >Can you link this percieved slowdown to any particular change(s)? The > >basic structure of the sio driver hasn't changed "recently". > > Well, I haven't updated this machine since 2.1.0-R. And the old driver WAS > much faster. As for what caused this: Would have to profile the code. (By > the time I could do that, I could probably learn to write a "super sio" > that was x86-specific.) Well, how about "can you quantify this 'slowdown'"? I sure as damn don't see it. > --Brett -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[