Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:25:21 -0000 (???) | From | Meino Christian Cramer <> | Subject | How should I take the "Intel inside" out? |
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Hi kernelistics! ;-)
(sorry, if this is OFFTOPIC but on the other hand it is kernel related...anyway, if YOU decide, it is too much beyond, please answer me directly...thanks!)
I want to upgrade my Linux box from a P90 on a Intel Plato Board to a K6 on -- WHAT??? -- board.
I want to use LINUX nearly exclusively.
The box runs only SCSI devices which are connected to a ncr53c815-adaptor. The second thing to mention is a Gravis Ultra Soundcard (PnP) which needs two DMA channels (not hardwired). I have 32Mbyte "ordinary" PS/2-SIMM RAM. And I don't think, that I will upgrade this to more RAM in the near future.
Now the problem: I want to run the box as fast as possible ;-)
At the moment I know three boards: The ASUS P55T2P4, the CHAINTECH M5861FM-1 and the GIGABYTE GA-586-HX rev 2.0
My kernel relevant (or isn't it?) question is: UNIX and therefore LINUX are multitasking operation systems. For me it means: From the sight of the processor, the code to be excuted is switched many times, so that the contents of the L1/L2 and processor pipes are becoming invalid very often and are therefore the caches are"""needless""". ^^^ ^^^---<<<watch this!
What is worth more: To have a board, which has 512KByte 2nd-level cache but "only" 835MByte/s throughput to the L1-cache _OR_ using a board, which has 876MByte/s throughput (L1-Cache) but only 256KByte L2-cache.
(The tests and benchmarks I know are based on tests with that nasty Windoze-stuff, so only the physical measurable values as those above are relevant to linux, I think...)
I have no idea, what the relation is between the timings of the context switches and the scheduling cycles and the times in which L1/L2-caches are used.
Has someone any experiences with boards for the AMD K6???
Thank you in advance for any help!
KEEP HACKING! meino
LINUX rules!
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