Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:15:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:15:13 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:46098 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:14:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:20:41 +0200 From: Dave Jones To: Hiroshi Miura Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com Subject: Re: NatSemi Geode improvement Message-ID: <20021017192041.B17285@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Hiroshi Miura , hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com References: <20021017171217.4749211782A@triton2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021017171217.4749211782A@triton2>; from miura@da-cha.org on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:12:17AM +0900 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 25 On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:12:17AM +0900, Hiroshi Miura wrote: > NatSemi Geode has a several feature to speed up, > but reset defalut value is set to slow side. > > I make a patch to speed up Geode about 20-40%!! > the benchmark result is downloadable from http://www.da-cha.org/geode/geode_graph.sxc. > that is openoffice format. > > I use this patch with 2.4.18, 2.4.19 in 4 month, I think it is stable enough. Previously these tweaks were done in userspace with the set6x86 utility. Is there any reason that these need to be done in the kernel apart from convenience ? Dave -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/