On 19 Mar 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > K6-2's aren't really i586's and i586_bzero should never be used for
> > them (generic bzero is faster),
>
> Wrong. I fixed machdep.c to compute and print the bandwidth correctly:
Wrong yourself. The fpu is too slow to use for copying for everything
except original Pentiums. The bandwidth test is just done to avoid hard-
configuring this knowledge.
> des@des ~% egrep '(CPU|bzero)' /var/run/dmesg.boot
> CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (350.80-MHz 586-class CPU)
> i586_bzero() bandwidth = 1056759 kBps
> bzero() bandwidth = 124211 kBps
I don't believe a bandwitdh of 1 GB/sec. It may be possible if the
buffer fits in an L1 or on-chip L2 cache (the test buffer is a bit small
for today's L2 cache sizes), but then plain bzero() would also benefit
from the cache.
> > i586_bzero gets used because negative bandwidths are significantly
> > smaller than positive ones,
>
> Uh, Bruce, we pick the method that gives the *highest* bandwidth, not
> the lowest.
Sorry, I meant "should not get used".
>
> > so plain bzero is faster according to this
> > message,
>
> There you go contradicting yourself...
This part is correct.
> Anyway, the bug is not K6-specific - I guess the reason why we're only
> seeing it on K6's is that they're the only 586-class CPUs that are
> fast enough to still be in widespread use.
The bug in i586_bzero() affects anything that gets that far, but only
original Pentiums should get that far. Apparently not many people
run -current on those. I actually turned on ny P5/133 a week ago,
but I didn't notice the bug.
The "bug" in npx.c is not really a bug. It's just that the printf was
written before %lld was supported in the kernel, so it truncates to
long and uses %ld. This shouldn't be a problem until the bandwidth
of main memory exceeds 2GB/sec, which won't happen soon (neither will
your apparent 1GB/sec bandwidth). However, bugs in microtime() sometime
cause the bandwidth to apparently exceed 2GB/sec. It is a feature that
huge bandwidths sometimes get printed as negative values -- negative
values are more obviously wrong. This is why %ld is used instead of %lu.
Bruce
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