Re: About ioremap() and L2-Cache

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:53:09 +0100 (BST)


> http://ikcbarka.fzk.de/~martin/proform.html
>
> it's a kernel module to set MTRR's. Reports say it seriously boosts XFree
> 3.3 on PPro's.

Sounds like one for everyone to test and get into distributions. I can
well believe it makes a difference. I've seen people reporting 30% "doomstone"
speedups with the windows equivalent hack