Hello, world!\n
I've tested RAID-5 on my new dual athlon box, and got the
following messages during system boot:
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 2550.400 MB/sec
32regs : 1702.000 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 4735.600 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 3910.800 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 5016.800 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (4735.600 MB/sec)
Why does the kernel decide to use the pIII_sse function,
even though the p5_mmx is faster?
The kernel is 2.4.20-pre5-ac1.
-Yenya
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Pruning my incoming mailbox after being 10 days off-line,
sorry for the delayed reply.
Jurriaan wrote:
: Try the source, there's a comment at the end of include/i386/xor.h that
: explains (not in great detail, but perhaps google or another archive can
: help there?).
It explains the reason perfectly for me - to try to avoid
the cache pollution. Thanks for pointing me to the right direction.
-Y.
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Pruning my incoming mailbox after being 10 days off-line,
sorry for the delayed reply.
From: Jan Kasprzak <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 04:18:46PM +0200
>
> Why does the kernel decide to use the pIII_sse function,
> even though the p5_mmx is faster?
>
> The kernel is 2.4.20-pre5-ac1.
>
Try the source, there's a comment at the end of include/i386/xor.h that
explains (not in great detail, but perhaps google or another archive can
help there?).
Good luck,
Jurriaan
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