From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 18 Sep 2002 11:27:34 -0600
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
> {in,out}{b,w,l}() operations have a fixed timing, therefore his
> results doesn't sound that far off.
????
I don't see why they should be. If it is a pci device the cost should
the same as a pci memory I/O. The bus packets are the same. So things like
increasing the pci bus speed should make it take less time.
The x86 processor has a well defined timing for executing inb
etc. instructions, the timing is fixed and is independant of the
speed of the PCI bus the device is on.
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