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From: Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:04:12 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030923230412.GA30157@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030923102735.42a59d57.davem@redhat.com>

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:27:35AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> As I understand it, you even do this stupid printk for user apps
> as well, that makes it more than rediculious.
                                                                                                                                                      
Just as a point of interest, as an application programmer I think it's
the type of thing you want to know about quite loudly.  The only
benchmark style figure on this I've ever seen is in this paper
                                                                                                                                                      
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vcconWindowsDataAlignmentOnIPFX86X86-64.asp
                                                                                                                                                      
(forgive the long url) which, if you scroll down to the little graph,
shows OS fixup is about 450 times slower that an aligned access.  That
sucks, and if I didn't realise I'd done it, it would suck even more.

Oh, and I think fixing it up automatically & warning is much more
useful than sending a (by default) terminating signal to the program;
though I'm sure others might disagree.
                                                                                                                                                      
-i
ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-23 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-19  4:16 NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Peter Chubb
2003-09-19  4:38 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-19  4:43   ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-19  5:01     ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-19  5:53       ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-19 10:49         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23  0:34           ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-23  0:36             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23  6:22               ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 10:40                 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-23 10:51                   ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 14:59                     ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 17:27                       ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 17:56                         ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24  2:55                           ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 23:04                         ` Ian Wienand [this message]
2003-09-23 23:35                           ` David S. Miller
2003-09-19  5:04     ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-19  5:11       ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-23 17:58 Van Maren, Kevin
2003-09-23 17:57 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:27   ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 18:47     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:17       ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 19:10         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 20:00           ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24  3:08             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-25 16:11               ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-09-26  1:12                 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:06 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 19:11   ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:21 Luck, Tony
2003-09-23 18:29 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 18:45   ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:51   ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 18:51     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 20:38       ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 20:45         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 22:35           ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 23:35             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24  0:13               ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-24  0:04                 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24  1:58               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-23 19:04     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 18:54   ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 18:52     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:09       ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 19:01         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:16           ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 19:08             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:28       ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-23 19:22         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 23:15           ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-23 23:37             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24  0:14               ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-24  0:06                 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:10   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-23 19:11     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 19:22       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-23 21:00 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-23 21:16   ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24  1:47     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 22:58 Luck, Tony
2003-09-23 23:32 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24  5:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-26  6:16 Manfred Spraul
2003-09-26  6:07 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-26  6:41   ` David Mosberger
2003-09-26 14:38   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-09-27  3:12     ` David S. Miller
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2003-09-26 15:14 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-26 15:41   ` David Mosberger
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     [not found]   ` <A317.6GH.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-26 17:04     ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-26 17:22       ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-26 17:47       ` David Mosberger
2003-09-27  3:57         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-27  4:36         ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27  4:52           ` David Mosberger
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     [not found] ` <A4gy.8wi.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <A4gy.8wi.17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <A4gy.8wi.11@gated-at.bofh.it>
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     [not found]         ` <AepM.5Zb.41@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-27  4:26           ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27  4:34             ` David Mosberger
2003-09-27 23:36             ` David S. Miller

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