Re: [PATCH] New: AMD K6 write allocate

Rene Janssen (rjanssen@ns.oke.nl)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:23:30 +0100

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At 04:00 PM 1/18/99 +0300, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
>Hello.
>
>>>Attached [new] version of patch (against 2.2.0pre7) should enable write
>>>allocate for AMD K6 model 6/7 processors. On my system it gives 5-7%
>>>increase in speed.
>>>
>>
>> Could you show some lmbench results for this patch? I checked a similar
>> patch (loadable module) , but lmbench didnt notice much improvement. Is
>> it really that much ?
>
>Maybe your BIOS enables write allocate by itself? Mine doesn't.
>
Yes, your patch detected that my BIOS (asus tx97xe/AWARD) enabled it already.

René

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