From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from protonic.prtnl (protonic.xs4all.nl [213.84.116.84]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D425EDDFAD for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:30:50 +1100 (EST) From: David Jander To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v4] MPC5121 TLB errata workaround Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:30:48 +0100 References: <200903161521.04979.david.jander@protonic.nl> In-Reply-To: <200903161521.04979.david.jander@protonic.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200903161530.48649.david.jander@protonic.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras , Gunnar Von Boehn , Wolfgang Denk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Ooops, ok I think I just missed your proposal, Kumar. Anyway, I'll post my benchmark results to this here: 1.- mplayer -nosound -benchmark testfile.mpeg (a DVD-mpeg2 file): No fix at all: VC: 30.5s VO: 53.4s Sys:1.95s Total: 85.8s First fix (force writes to way 0): VC: 24.3s VO: 40.6s Sys:1.95s Total: 66.9s Second fix (implementing lrw): VC: 23.1s VO: 31.5s Sys:1.03s Total: 55.6s Third fix (patch v4, lrw in SPRG6): VC: 21.055s VO: 28.289s Sys:0.972s Total: 50.316s 2.- prboom -timedemo doombench1 (where doombench1.lmp is prerecorded demo): No fix at all: 14.1 fps First fix (force writes to way 0): 16.7 fps Second fix (implementing lrw): 18.1 fps Third fix (patch v4, lrw in SPRG6): 19.9 fps 3.- Synthetic and pathologic memcpy() benchmark: No fix at all: 26 Mbyte/s First fix (force writes to way 0): 160 MByte/s Second fix (implementing lrw): 163 MByte/s Third fix (patch v4, lrw in SPRG6): 180 MByte/s Best regards, -- David Jander Protonic Holland.