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From: "Joakim Tjernlund" <Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se>
To: <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Cc: <drow@false.org>
Subject: Re: Improved copy_page() function, about 30% speed up for mpc860!
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:50:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005401c2e0e4$27a1b6b0$020120b0@jockeXP> (raw)


> > > I can't tell you what revs they were, but all of the MPC860's I could
> > > get my hands on here the last time I tried to use dcbz on them were
> > > faulty. You may just not be triggering the bug.
> >
> > hmm, what boards was this?
> > I am planning to a larger test here with all our custom mpc860 and mpc862 boards. We have them in
> > 100, 80 and 50 MHZ variants.
> >
> > May be the bug is related to board design?  Is there an official errata from Motorla
> > regarding this bug? I can't find any.
> >
> > Anyhow I had a flaw in my testprogram, so you can throw this version of copy_page() away.
> > But enabling the use of dcbz in the current version still gives me 30%+ performance increase.
> >
> > See the embedded list for details.
> >
> >  Jocke

I found a link that may have relevance regarding  the dcbz problem , can anybody confirm this?
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0012.0/0529.html

    Jocke

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             reply	other threads:[~2003-03-02 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-02 17:50 Joakim Tjernlund [this message]
2003-03-03 21:18 ` Improved copy_page() function, about 30% speed up for mpc860! Dan Malek
2003-03-03 23:16   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04  0:43     ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04  0:54       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-03-04  3:38         ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04  8:29           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04 13:33             ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04 15:24               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04 17:00                 ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04 22:01                   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04 22:41                     ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04 23:20                       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04 23:35                     ` Tom Rini
2003-03-04 23:45                       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-05  0:05                         ` Tom Rini
2003-03-05  0:19                           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-05 17:12                             ` Tom Rini
2003-03-05 17:50                               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-05 17:15                       ` Dan Malek
     [not found]     ` <1046737789.885.15.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr>
2003-03-04  0:51       ` Dan Malek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-27 13:08 Joakim Tjernlund
2003-02-27 15:45 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-02-28 17:31 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-03 21:28 ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04  0:09   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04  0:19   ` Paul Mackerras

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