Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Sep 1999 01:18:44 +0200 | From | Dieter Nützel <> | Subject | Re: Athlon patches for 2.2.x kernels |
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> > Is there any patches for the 2.2.x kernels for the athlon? I've noticed > > Nope > > > that it can be selected in 2.3.18ac6, but since some features I need to > > use are not working at the moment, I need to stick with the 2.2.x > > kernels for now. > > The changes are optimisations, they also rely on the 2.3.x FPU stuff. I have > no plan to back port them to 2.2.x. The only thing that does matter - MTRR > support - is sorted. > > Alan > > I have my Athlon running with 2.2.13pre9 and 2.3.18ac6.
Alan, I found some problems with my Voodoo3 3000 and my MSI MS-6167 main board (BIOS). When ever I set the MTRRs for the Voodoo3 I get in trouble (only with 3D/Glide). Yes, I get some big trouble under Win98/98 SE, too. It never runs under Win at this time! I think it is under Win MTRR related, too. But I can't get access to the MTRR registers under Winbloze.
Which Athlon main board have you got, Alan? Reversion? BIOS? Have you got a Winbloze tool to fiddle around with the MTRR registers? I am still in contact with MSI/3dfx/AMD.
Regards, Dieter
BTW Here are some benchmarks:
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 3.11) System -- Linux SunWave1 2.3.18ac2 #1 Sun Sep 12 20:59:51 MET DST 1999 i686 unknown Start Benchmark Run: Mon Sep 13 04:20:25 MET DST 1999 1 interactive users. Dhrystone 2 without register variables 1164344.7 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1156970.0 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = arithoh) 34861680.9 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = register) 91612.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = short) 97030.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = int) 91587.7 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = long) 91551.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = float) 214766.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = double) 214943.0 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) System Call Overhead Test 302421.0 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Pipe Throughput Test 371559.1 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching Test 115875.5 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Process Creation Test 3125.7 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Execl Throughput Test 621.1 lps (9 secs, 6 samples) File Read (10 seconds) 1151294.0 KBps (10 secs, 6 samples) File Write (10 seconds) 166564.0 KBps (10 secs, 6 samples) File Copy (10 seconds) 15059.0 KBps (10 secs, 6 samples) File Read (30 seconds) 1152364.0 KBps (30 secs, 6 samples) File Write (30 seconds) 167910.0 KBps (30 secs, 6 samples) File Copy (30 seconds) 10397.0 KBps (30 secs, 6 samples) C Compiler Test 473.6 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) Shell scripts (1 concurrent) 1176.5 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) Shell scripts (2 concurrent) 605.1 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) Shell scripts (4 concurrent) 301.0 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 150.0 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) Dc: sqrt(2) to 99 decimal places 63349.4 lpm (60 secs, 6 samples) Recursion Test--Tower of Hanoi 15369.9 lps (10 secs, 6 samples)
INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Arithmetic Test (type = double) 2541.7 214943.0 84.6 Dhrystone 2 without register variables 22366.3 1164344.7 52.1 Execl Throughput Test 16.5 621.1 37.6 File Copy (30 seconds) 179.0 10397.0 58.1 Pipe-based Context Switching Test 1318.5 115875.5 87.9 Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 4.0 150.0 37.5
========= SUM of 6 items 357.7 AVERAGE 59.6
--- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science
University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science Cognitive Systems Group Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30 D-22527 Hamburg, Germany
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