Re: Please test: ACPI-CA import 20050408

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:49:23 -0400
On Friday 15 April 2005 01:36 pm, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Apr 15), Marcel Moolenaar said:
> > On Apr 15, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Mark Santcroos wrote:
> > >On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:20:52AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > >>BTW: Is ACPICA getting slower?
> > >
> > > Might be. I don't have numbers on that. I guess we're still
> > > focusing on functionality and not so much on speed. Do you have a
> > > concrete area where you think we are loosing performance?
> >
> > No, not yet. It's just that there are 2 "dead" spots in the booting
> > process of the plutos we have in the cluster and these "dead" spots
> > appeared to be longer. I think there's a lot of AML interpretation
> > going on during that time, but I might be wrong.
>
> What I have personally seen is a long delay in bus_alloc_resource() on
> some older Dell machines (desktop and laptop, both under 500Mhz).  If I
> apply the attached patch, I see between 15 and 20 rows of identical
> output, and each call to b_a_r takes a noticeable fraction of a second
> (i.e. the cursor spends most of its time after an IRQ, not after a 'y'
> or 'n'.) The delays probably add 45 seconds total to the boot time.
>
> Newer systems will just generate 4 or 5 lines total for the entire boot
> process.

Current doesn't use that version of the pci_link code anymore, so you should 
only see these delays on RELENG_5 now.

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Received on Wed Apr 27 2005 - 16:45:33 UTC

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