Re: MTRR patches ??

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:42:10 +1100

Stephen Coffin writes:
> What is the status of the MTRR code for linux 2.1.x ?? Is this
> part of the standard kernel, or will it be so? I was unable to
> find any mention of it in the config or help files in 2.1.81....
>
> Some of us will be happy to take a free 10% speedup :-)

10% ? Try 2.5 times faster on bitblit write operations. I've emailed
Linus the patch (MTRR v1.5), but so far have been met with deathly
silence. I'm told he's looking at it...
You can find it at:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/kernel-patches.html

'Cmon, Linus: the XFree86 people might have support for it before the
kernel has it ;-/

Regards,

Richard....