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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 1997 21:49:29 +0200 (MEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
To:        se@FreeBSD.ORG (Stefan Esser)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: code talks:  announcing EIDE bus master patches
Message-ID:  <199707291949.VAA00271@sos.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19970729210723.18104@mi.uni-koeln.de> from Stefan Esser at "Jul 29, 97 09:07:23 pm"

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In reply to Stefan Esser who wrote:
> On Jul 29, Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> > Well, doing a little surgery to it and sticking it into current, 
> > (the PCI subsystem has changed a little from 2.2.x to current)
> > I'd say it works pretty well here too (440FX chipset Maxtor drives).
> 
> Are these Maxtor DiamondMax drives ?

Yep these are Maxtor DiamondMax 84000A6 drives (4G)

> I'd love to see Bonnie results for them
> with the bus-master EIDE driver ...
> 
> You don't have, by chance, any numbers 
> to share ?  :)

Sure, on my dev machine (P6@233Mhz-Natoma/64MB/2*Maxtor 84000A6)
First without busmatering DMA:

              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
          100  4871 35.9  4738  9.4  1722  3.6  4488 37.2  6973  8.5 126.7  2.2


Then with busmastering DMA:

              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
          100  5225 39.8  5278 11.1  2017  4.4  7315 60.2  8737 10.8 149.6  2.2

Not bad, for a "simple" software upgrade :)

It has improved my worldstone by ~10% if that counts for real world use..

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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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