Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:12:45 +1100 (AEDT) | From | Finn Thain <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 22/71] ncr5380: Eliminate selecting state |
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On Sun, 29 Nov 2015, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> If an ISA access takes 8 us, while the CPU runs at 1 GHz, i.e. 500M > loops/s, the difference will be huge.
Ondrej showed that an ISA access can take about 1.6 us. I don't know what to make of the "8 uS" comment in the mainline driver. Maybe it was an even slower ISA card.
Anyway, I made a measurement on my hardware and confirmed that lpj is a very bad proxy for device register access throughput. The "loops per access" gap is several orders of magnitude:
lpj HZ access time (us) lpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ondrej's 5380 ISA card (PC): 4797252 250 1.6 1.9k My DMX3191D PCI card (PowerMac): 167079 100 0.42 7.0
> > Perhaps you can calibrate an NCR5380_read() loop at driver init time, > and use the calibration value later?
I had the same idea but I didn't think that the complexity was justified by the low precision requirement. But now that I have some timings I have to agree.
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