> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:34:43PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > : On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:36:02PM -0700, othermark wrote: > > : > I have a multi-port PCI card under puc and sio that has 4 19200 > > : > connections to it now, and when data is streaming across all of > > : > them at once, I get several silo overflows. Would it be better > > : > to run this under puc + uart? > > : > > : Not really. The problem is that puc(4) iterates over all ports in > > : the same way whether you use uart(4) or sio(4). So, puc(4) is > > : the problem more that sio(4) or uart(4). However, uart(4) has the > > : beginnings of an interface that puc(4) could use to figure out > > : which UART needs attention without actually calling the interrupt > > : routine for each of them. > > > > Yes, but at 19200 baud, his problems likely aren't related to the > > iteration. They are likely related to the fact that he said his > > interrupt is shared and therefore not fast. We have horrible > > interrupt latency in current when you want to get to the FIFOs of > > UARTs quickly :-(. > > Those cards are just what they are - cheap. > They have very small FIFOs and they don't use DMA. > IRQ sharing makes them even worse than traditional ISA stuff. > My advise for cost efficient and fast serials is getting USB ones. > Even noname USB serials do much better then puc(4) based. > E.g. the FT232BM (uftdi(4)) has 128 bytes send and 384 bytes receive > buffer plus your USB controller does DMA. > At best you would add a cheap OHCI card if your onboard USB is UHCI > based as OHCI is less CPU intensive.
I used to use 9600 bps serial links on LSI-11/23 systems 20 years ago to run SLIP over. This was with dumb DL-11 serial adapters on way slower CPUs and busses than we have today. The difference was a much lower interrupt latency. You'd think that running serial links 10 times faster on CPUs that are a few hundred times faster wouldn't be too hard. louie _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
