On 31-12-07 13:23, Alan Cox wrote:
I dug out the reference drivers. The reference drivers use the delay and
the 8390 datasheet confirms it is neccessary.
Great, thanks for that.
The Crynwr driver has some interesting things to say
| The National 8390 Chip (NIC) requires 4 bus clocks between successive
| chip selects (National DP8390 Data Sheet Addendum, June 1990)
Okay, that's pretty specific. Given that these things exist on actual ISA
cards and "I/O recovery time" BIOS settings that are availabe also on these
old 386s already it's probably still at least somewhat debatable how much
linux drivers really need to care even in this case -- but let's ignore that.
Also " To establish a minimum delay, an I/O instruction must be used. A
good rule of ; thumb is that ISA I/O instructions take ~1.0 microseconds
and MCA I/O ; instructions take ~0.5 microseconds. Reading the NMI Status
Register (0x61) ; is a good way to pause on all machines."
But all the official drivers use pauses and the manual says they are
needed for correct, reliable behaviour - at least with a genuine 8390.
Okay. Am about to go stuff my face with new years celebrations but will
definitely try to make that old WD8003 hickup.
By the way, expected, but before anyone else mentions it -- no, reading from
port 0x61 is not a reliable delay today. Duron 1300 / AMD756:
rene@7ixe4:~/src/port80$ su -c ./portime
out 0x80: 2400 cycles
in 0x80: 2400 cycles
in 0x61: 2400 cycles
But PII 400 / Intel 440BX:
rene@6bap:~/port80$ su -c ./portime
out 0x80: 545 cycles
in 0x80: 254 cycles
in 0x61: 254 cycles
Rene.
/* gcc -W -Wall -O2 -o portime portime.c */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/io.h>
#define LOOPS 10000
inline uint64_t rdtsc(void)
{
uint32_t hi, lo;
asm ("rdtsc": "=d" (hi), "=a" (lo));
return (uint64_t)hi << 32 | lo;
}
inline void serialize(void)
{
asm ("cpuid": : : "eax", "ebx", "ecx", "edx");
}
int main(void)
{
uint64_t tsc0, tsc1, tsc2, tsc3, tsc4;
uint64_t out, in8, in6;
int i;
if (iopl(3) < 0) {
perror("iopl");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
asm ("cli");
tsc0 = rdtsc();
for (i = 0; i < LOOPS; i++) {
serialize();
serialize();
}
tsc1 = rdtsc();
for (i = 0; i < LOOPS; i++) {
serialize();
asm ("outb %al, $0x80");
serialize();
}
tsc2 = rdtsc();
for (i = 0; i < LOOPS; i++) {
serialize();
asm ("inb $0x80, %%al": : : "al");
serialize();
}
tsc3 = rdtsc();
for (i = 0; i < LOOPS; i++) {
serialize();
asm ("inb $0x61, %%al": : : "al");
serialize();
}
tsc4 = rdtsc();
asm ("sti");
out = ((tsc2 - tsc1) - (tsc1 - tsc0)) / LOOPS;
in8 = ((tsc3 - tsc2) - (tsc1 - tsc0)) / LOOPS;
in6 = ((tsc4 - tsc3) - (tsc1 - tsc0)) / LOOPS;
printf("out 0x80: %llu cycles\n", out);
printf("in 0x80: %llu cycles\n", in8);
printf("in 0x61: %llu cycles\n", in6);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
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