From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 4 15: 8:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F5837B41C for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:08:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0476.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.221] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16XsDn-0007Ss-00; Mon, 04 Feb 2002 15:08:24 -0800 Message-ID: <3C5F145B.3B1D13AD@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 15:08:11 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Narvi Cc: Peter Wemm , "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: AMD AGP Bug References: <20020204154828.Q7603-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Narvi wrote: > I wasn't aware that I was contradicting Peter 8-) Sorry; looked like it to me... 8-). > It may even well be possible to get different results with aligned vs. > misaligned reads and writes, or a proper mix thereof. It may be possible > to build a model to track down the "what is really going on" part, but its > not clear its worth the trouble over just picking what (not) to do. Unless you were a chip vendor telling people to disable PSE in all rour systems that ran Windows or Linux, and the resulting systems were losing 4-14% of their total performance as a result? ;^). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message