From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 19 19:27:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33CEC40 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:27:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-x22b.google.com (mail-wi0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79029242C for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:27:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f171.google.com with SMTP id hm2so8485553wib.4 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:27:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=suXfFT4WJ73WS9FAbDgLv06RNQuYKTCKRihDXavVUg4=; b=PiWhxVpIfBBI5BX72XmRM/hTUzmw+CznScqDavsFNlJgLwfnmol75bW41UwqH9LBjo NId6td/nJwaPGCAfskBd2NJXkHZwVjzj9XB6zP4gPWdYkIm0mq40h4u9+FRKuTE/klBS EUhuRX8sTUOpIc82bIx2yVI3a9XbZ0xX6m6czJFHVtZiMfTjoXFAE6pxiv8ybJS7NPq9 sExfpcKlWh6FDFR6Thiv9t+J8A5hVuIzEUs6p4jGAs8n4P+5hK0qP0TXBya+dgm+RBvF jTGg1+ZniPxRBszzljoswVVdDo9MwYkhJ3XJLTo9RieyukR6/c+RxJnBoDXBiu3mPwbO DDmA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.211.206 with SMTP id ne14mr2688326wic.30.1379618840805; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:27:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.73.133 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:27:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1378316083.1706.0.camel@localhost> <9165aa958e7dc206da3515146181c14b.squirrel@arroway.org> <1378325846.1706.2.camel@localhost> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:27:20 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: bclWX2XLCdXTVipzuZkVnS6herk Message-ID: Subject: Re: Dlink DIR-825 B1 trial From: Adrian Chadd To: Warner Losh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:27:23 -0000 On 19 September 2013 12:16, Warner Losh wrote: > > I do not see why it has to be 3 for the rest of the platforms. > > > > Has anyone checked if autotuning works on other platforms? I do not think > > so. > > I'm unsure why it is 3 on all the other platforms. I'd imagine that at > least mips and arm could be change. Especially the newer/bigger ones (armv6 > and mips64). the autotune code wasn't tested against smaller systems and > there's been much pain because of it... > .. it irks me because they have the tools to do this. They can just spin up an i386 VM with limited RAM, like 16mb or 32mb. See everything fail miserably. Then rinse, fix and repeat. They didn't need an arm, ppc or mips VM to test out the autotune changes. Grr. Maybe I'll do that with 10-ALPHA1 and report back how things break. -adrian