On Monday, November 05, 2007 4:26 Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:32:24AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote:
> > (Don't trim cc:s.)
> >
> > On Nov 5, 2007 8:00 AM, Bo Brantén <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Intel Core 2 Quad
> > >> and I noticed that the 64-bit versions was at least 10 times
> > >> slower than the 32-bit versions,
> > >
> > > After I uppgraded the BIOS the mtrr looks like below, and now it
> > > works if I boot with mem=4736M so I can use all memory but it
> > > still doesn't work without the mem parameter then it will run as
> > > slow as before.
>
> Then the BIOS is still broken Comapl in to your motherboard vendor.
>
> > > 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= 256MB: write-back, count=1
> > > reg03: base=0xcf800000 (3320MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1
> > > reg04: base=0xcf700000 (3319MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1
> > > reg05: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back,
> > > count=1 reg06: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 128MB:
> > > write-back, count=1
> >
> > Jesse Barnes (cc:d) wrote a patch to address this, I think (x86:
> > trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs), but as far as I can tell it
> > hasn't been merged yet. System is Intel, 4gb of RAM.
>
> It wasn't merged because it broke booting on some systems.
> Besides the memory would be still lost -- all it did was to automate
> the "mem=XXXX" line.
Andi, do you have any details on which system broke and how? I haven't
heard back from you on my last message on the subject... the patch was
in -mm for awhile with no complaints.
Ultimately, this is a broken BIOS issue, but still, it would be nice if
the kernel handled it better.
Thanks,
Jesse
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