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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>
Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, jesse.barnes@intel.com, gnb@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use mmiowb in tg3_poll
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:53:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117544022.6134.54.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505300925570.11645@linux.site>

On Mon, 2005-30-05 at 09:30 -0700, Arthur Kepner wrote:

> I quickly looked through the records that I have and, unfortunately, 
> wasn't able to locate raw data. But I found some scrawlings in my 
> notes which say the most recent measurements for an Altix are: 
> 
> 	i)  PIO read latency ~ 2.4 usec
> 	ii) mmiowb() latency ~ 1.1 usec
> 


In terms of CPU cycles, how many do the above compute to be?
The absolute time numbers you have are also useful for quantification
purposes.

Did i read correctly that your reads are about 2x more expensive than
the writes?

cheers,
jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-31 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200410211613.19601.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
2004-10-21 23:28 ` [PATCH] use mmiowb in tg3.c Jesse Barnes
2004-10-21 23:40   ` David S. Miller
2004-10-22  1:16     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-22  1:33       ` akepner
2004-10-22  2:07         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-22  3:01     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-22  4:00       ` Paul Mackerras
2004-10-22 20:51   ` [PATCH] use mmiowb in tg3_poll akepner
2005-05-28 23:12     ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-05-30 16:30       ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-31 12:53         ` jamal [this message]
2005-05-31 16:45           ` Jesse Barnes

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