Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261649AbVDJXbg (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:31:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261655AbVDJXap (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:30:45 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.192]:38041 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261649AbVDJX1p (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:27:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=UoB6+ev8Qjjq66MDEYiiHHHlbkoJ1gzcwQW7KyDsPfoQidiOOR5JipYf3t/mvttfAvNJVeDcC7smJ8QpjfDwmgKAVHZnQop01m22G99Wwde1rcdwQe74civj1Tq++xQrOyQHqYKm5fTUOeOdT1RiGt7Umuvq/Wo79ereAjPpPUM= Message-ID: <2a0fbc590504101627651755ab@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 01:27:41 +0200 From: Julien Wajsberg Reply-To: Julien Wajsberg To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2a0fbc59050325145935a05521@mail.gmail.com> <2a0fbc5905040506422fbf6356@mail.gmail.com> <2a0fbc59050405155815666e8d@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 947 Lines: 25 On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > How would you know? Windows will just run it as PIOW and be done > with it. Yes, but there's a way to know which mode you're using (maybe not precisely, but at least PIO vs DMA). > Did you ever try to copy a large file in XP? Try it. > Try the same thing in linux on the same hardware. You don't need > a stop-watch. On Win-XP, a 10 megabyte file (hardly large) takes > about 10 seconds. That's 1 megabyte/second. Linux tries to be > a bit faster. Usually, I only have Linux on any hardware I have ;) And there is no point comparing these things here... -- Julien PS: Sorry Richard, I forgot my "reply to all" button... - 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/