Re: Terrible IO performance when using 4GB of RAM on a 32 bit machine

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Peter Rabbitson wrote:
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Peter Rabbitson wrote:
I have captured dmesg output without mem[5], with mem=3900M[6] and
mem=2048M[7].


What does /proc/mtrr look like in the two cases?


Identical for mem=3900 and without it.

reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0xf0000000 (3840MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1
reg05: base=0xf8000000 (3968MB), size=  32MB: write-back, count=1

Looks like another case of bad MTRRs on an Intel motherboard? The BIOS is marking only memory up to 4000MB as cacheable, but the actual memory extends up to about 4031MB. Therefore anything that accesses the top 31MB of memory will run very slow.

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