Subject: Re: MI SONIC Ethernet driver for mac68k
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/05/2007 13:34:52
At 9:05 Uhr +0900 5.6.2007, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>> Do you have a performance comparison for the old vs. the MI one?
>
>Unfortunately, MI one is slower (currently).
Can you time the transfers from the other (I assume, non-mac68k) machine
for comparison? Since, as I understand, the MD driver does buffer-to-memory
transfers by cpu, it may well lock out timer interrupts and lose clock
ticks, possibly skewing your timing results.
hauke
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