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- From: sgberg@avocado.ucs.indiana.edu (Stefan G. Berg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Chip RAM extremely slow with GVP A530
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.194717.13182@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:47:10 GMT
- References: <93024.073149PATROL@ACI.CVUT.CS> <1993Jan27.010254.2209@msus1.msus.edu>
- Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
- Lines: 189
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- lkoop@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (LaMonte Koop) writes:
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- >In article <93024.073149PATROL@ACI.CVUT.CS>, Pavel Troller <PATROL@ACI.CVUT.CS> writes:
- >The 68020, 68030, and 68040 always prefetch instructions using 32-bit read
- >cycles. Since the A500 motherboard bus is a 16-bit port to the 68030 on your
- >accelerator, essentially 2 memory read cycles must be accomplished for every
- >instruction prefetch done. Right off the bat this gives you a 2x performance
- >hit against a 68030 doing prefetches from a full 32-bit bus port. If you add
- >to this the fact that, as you indicated, the reads are done asynchronously to
- >a bus running a ~7.15 MHz, and the fact that you also have to deal with bus
- >contention from the custom chip DMA on the CHIP RAM bus, you can easily see
- >where performance drops into the ground in the case with the instruction
- >cache disabled. Performance figures less than a system running the stock
- >68000 in this situation are not unexpected.
-
- That makes me wonder if this has to do with my serial port problems. I have a
- 68030-33 without any 32 bit RAM (I wait to install it until I get the fan I
- ordered), but with 1MB Chip and 8MB Fast. Using my Supra modem at full speed
- works really great since I have the 030. The system doesn't slow down a whole
- lot even at full speed and my cps rate has gone up considerably. However! When
- I write something to a PC disk with Cross DOS or my module player in the
- background switches it's modules I have a pretty good chance of getting
- transmission errors. Could it be that the 030 is being really wasteful with
- the Chip RAM bus and even though the CPU isn't slowed down I get problem with
- my serial port due to an overloaded chip bus? Oh... interlace and high color
- screens are also a pretty bad idea when doing file transmissions. A friend
- of mine with a Supra modem, but "only" an AdSpeed (14MHZ 68000) doesn't seem
- to have any of these problems although my computer outperforms his in terms of
- benchmarking software.
-
- Let me know if there is some truth to this. How could I fix the problem? I
- guess the 32 Bit Fast RAM won't help in this case. It might even make it worse,
- because access to Chip RAM will be more intense (less time will be spend in
- executing programs in the faster 32 Bit RAM). BTW, my KS ROM is mapped in the
- 512KB SRAM I have on my accelerator board.
-
- Stefan
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