From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 19 10:55:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B34815243 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:55:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA41836; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:53:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:53:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Jason Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question about MTRR boot message In-Reply-To: <002b01bed20b$5547e1c0$0500a8c0@local.nullifier.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jason wrote: > Before you go any further worrying about this "just in case", there is > nothing for you to worry about. Part of what the MTRR "stuff" does is it > stops the L2 cache from cacheing that range of memory. This is typicaly used > for video cards, as you have been told, because well, you really never read > back from the video card's memory frame buffer, and if you did, for some > strange reason, it would only result in a cache miss and would then have to > be fetched from main memory. Since your L2 cache isn't wasting space on this > area of memory, it can cache something more usefull, and thus give you a > speed *increase*. > I wrote the K6-2 MTRR support, but I really don't know how to use it. You see, my X server reports: (--) SVGA: PCI: NVidia Riva TNT rev 4, Memory @ 0xef000000, 0xcc000000 But which do I make uncacheable? > > Thus, MTRR is GOOD. > > - Jason > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message