Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261799AbTILS2J (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:28:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261810AbTILS1F (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:27:05 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:61103 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261799AbTILSW7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:22:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:11:48 -0700 From: Tim Hockin To: Andi Kleen Cc: Jesse Barnes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory mapped IO vs Port IO Message-ID: <20030912111148.A15308@hockin.org> References: <20030911192550.7dfaf08c.ak@suse.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <1063308053.4430.37.camel@huykhoi.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20030912162713.GA4852@sgi.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20030912174807.GA629@sgi.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ak@suse.de on Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:00:03PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 35 On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:00:03PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) writes: > > > Ok, Andi asked for benchmarks, so I ran some. Let this should be a > > lesson on why you shouldn't use port I/O :) I ran these on an SGI Altix > > w/900 MHz McKinley processors. > > > > Just straight calls to the routines (all of these are based on the > > average of 100 iterations): > > writeq(val, reg) time: 64 cycles > > outl(val, reg) time: 2126 cycles > ^^^^^ > > > > A simple branch: > > if (use_mmio) > > writeq(val, reg) time: 132 cycles > > else > > outl(val, reg) time: 1990 cycles > ^^^^^ > Something seems to be wrong in your numbers. > > Surely the outl in the if () cannot be faster than the pure outl() ? Also - a perhaps more useful test is a write followed by a read. -- Notice that as computers are becoming easier and easier to use, suddenly there's a big market for "Dummies" books. Cause and effect, or merely an ironic juxtaposition of unrelated facts? - 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/