[REVIEW/TEST] nanodelay() vs DELAY()
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Nov 24 08:33:47 PST 2004
In message <20041122073132.GW79646 at cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>, Peter Jeremy wri
tes:
>The fact that this doesn't show up in the graph suggests that you're
>not using tc_nanodelay() at all within the 0..8usec range.
Right, but I can't trust that to be the case as CPUs get faster.
Originally I considered having MD routines registered also, stuff
like doing an "inb()" on i386 etc. As it transpired the exponential
nature of the nanodelay_loopcall2() function makes this unnecessary.
>Your graph suggests that it's fairly good above about 200nsec even on
>equipment that is not blazingly fast.
Don't let the log-log scale deceive you. being 50% wrong doesn't look
like much.
>Have you looked at the granularity of tc_nanodelay() (and the likely
>granularity required by callers)? Is 8nsec reasonable given the
>inner loop of of tc_nanodelay()?
I'm actually considering making it 32nsec based on a 33MHz PCI speed.
>Do you have any idea where the transition points between the various
>delay functions are?
If you boot -v it will tell you.
>>The array takes up 9000 bytes on 32 bit and 17000 on 64 bit.
>
>AFAIK, all the FreeBSD architectures have 32-bit ints, so that should
>be 13,000 bytes for 64bit architectures.
Still, that's an awful lot for an old ass'y programmer like me :-)
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