Re: Synaptics

2008-01-22 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Cristian, good day. Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:06:26PM +0200, Cristian KLEIN wrote: Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: But what protocol is selected? From your Xorg log I assume that it is either event, auto-dev or not set at all. I just ran into the same problem. In xorg.conf I explicitly told the

gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, I noticed that hping3 (from ports) is quite slower when running on FreeBSD compared to Linux. Simple ktrace shows lot of gettimeofday() calls, so I'm looking for replacement of this function. I tried clock_gettime() (using CLOCK_REALTIME for clock_id), but this yield worse

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Vlad GALU
On 1/22/08, Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I noticed that hping3 (from ports) is quite slower when running on FreeBSD compared to Linux. Simple ktrace shows lot of gettimeofday() calls, so I'm looking for replacement of this function. I tried clock_gettime() (using

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried clock_gettime() (using CLOCK_REALTIME for clock_id), but this yield worse performance. Try CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead. I forgot - there are also the FreeBSD-specific CLOCK_REALTIME_FAST and

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried clock_gettime() (using CLOCK_REALTIME for clock_id), but this yield worse performance. Try CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried clock_gettime() (using CLOCK_REALTIME for clock_id), but this yield worse performance. Try CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead. I forgot - there are also the

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:34:55PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: More modern machines have an HPET timer which is supposedly faster than ACPI yet more reliable than TSC. For NetBSD on AMD64 on a 1.2GHz Core2: ACPI ~2400 cycles HPET ~1500 cycles TSC ~800 cycles clockinterrupt ~600 cycles

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tested all different combination. The performance change is almost invisible (100-200KB/s), and can't be compared with the performance boost that TSC gain over ACPI-fast timecounter. Unfortunately TSC doesn't play nice with power saving modes. This

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not to discount any of your suggestions, but isn't the better performance of gettimeofday() (and perhaps clock_gettime() also) in Linux because they have access to the time in userland and can implement it without a system call? I seem to recall this

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried clock_gettime() (using CLOCK_REALTIME for clock_id), but this yield worse performance. Try CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead. I forgot - there are

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Hi, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tested all different combination. The performance change is almost invisible (100-200KB/s), and can't be compared with the performance boost that TSC gain over ACPI-fast timecounter. Unfortunately TSC doesn't play

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: Hi, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tested all different combination. The performance change is almost invisible (100-200KB/s), and can't be compared with the performance boost that TSC gain over ACPI-fast timecounter.

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Stefan Lambrev wrote: I do not have HEPT on the servers that I test, but simple test on my laptop shows that hping can generate with ACPI-fast ~4MB/s traffic, 5MB/s with HPET and 8MB/s with TSC. How much can Linux handle? I didn't check dummy time counter. If you do, it would give a nice

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, Kris Kennaway wrote: Stefan Lambrev wrote: Hi, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tested all different combination. The performance change is almost invisible (100-200KB/s), and can't be compared with the performance boost that TSC gain over

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: You should use hwpmc to verify where the application is really spending time, since gettimeofday doesn't seem to account for it all. pmc: Unknown Intel CPU. module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (hwpmc, 0x8029906d, 0x8054c500) error 78 OK, this is the famous

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Hi, Ivan Voras wrote: Stefan Lambrev wrote: I do not have HEPT on the servers that I test, but simple test on my laptop shows that hping can generate with ACPI-fast ~4MB/s traffic, 5MB/s with HPET and 8MB/s with TSC. How much can Linux handle? Will install ubuntu on the same machine and

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: How much can Linux handle? Will install ubuntu on the same machine and let you know, but my experience shows that FreeBSD + TSC have the same performance as Linux With which timecounter? Here are the max speeds I can reach with different counters (on the test

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Kris Kennaway wrote: Stefan Lambrev wrote: You should use hwpmc to verify where the application is really spending time, since gettimeofday doesn't seem to account for it all. pmc: Unknown Intel CPU. module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (hwpmc, 0x8029906d, 0x8054c500) error 78

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Stefan Lambrev wrote: You should use hwpmc to verify where the application is really spending time, since gettimeofday doesn't seem to account for it all. pmc: Unknown Intel CPU. module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (hwpmc, 0x8029906d,

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Kris Kennaway wrote: Stefan Lambrev wrote: How much can Linux handle? Will install ubuntu on the same machine and let you know, but my experience shows that FreeBSD + TSC have the same performance as Linux With which timecounter? I guess the default as it is not set anywhere (in linux it

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-01-22 Thread Bruce R. Montague
Hi, re this from Alec Kloss, 21 Jan 2008: I'm hoping someone will be able to help me out with the audio is the Geode CS5536. This has come up a few times before, once early this month and once last February. The CS5530 driver mentioned on the soundsystem wiki doesn't work. ...