I5110401%DBSTU1.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (09/08/89)
Hello minix freaks, The minix speedup discussion (st version) was very interesting. I took a closer look into it and find that those multiplications caused by the proc_addr() macro can be *totally avoided*. Here's how it works : create an array of pointers to process descriptors on startup and fill it with the adresses of each member of the proc[]-array. Then change the proc_addr macro so that it's using this array to determine the address of the process. Since the new array has an element length of 4, indices are no longer calculate by a multiplication; a shift left twice instruction is now used, which a lot faster then before ! Have you noticed yet that there's a division of two longs in the inter- rupt code ? In certain places the slot number for a process in the process table is needed when there's only a pointer to the descriptor. The slot number is calculated by a pointer subtraction (rp - proc), which in turn creates an address subtraction, followed by the division by the element length. By adding a new field to the process structure this can be avoided : just add the slot number to it. Whereever it's needed, it's now there - and it's fast, just a memory access. Following this you will find a uuencoded, compressed cdiff to the kernel containing diffs as discussed above. It's relative to hjc's updated ST alltar-kernel (sorry, no other version available yet. No version con- trol). Add a '#endif' line at the end of stshadow.c, for some unknown reason diff hasn't recognized it. I haven't compared this solution to Roland Lamprecht's (?) [V61@DHDURZ1.BITNET ??] one, but i found the speed increase seem to be *a lot*. Please, will someone do the comparision and post the results here ? I'm intersted in how effective it really is. O yes, you need the copy68k.s file from Roland's distribution - his one is better then mine, so use that. Regards, --- Kai-Uwe --- ========================================================================= " This space intentionally left blank " Kai-Uwe Bloem, I5110401@DBSTU1.BitNet, ...!unido!dbstu1.bitnet!i5110401, I5110401%DBSTU1.BITNET@CORNELLC.CCS.CORNELL.EDU (or other known gateways) student of cs at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig / w-germany ====snip====snip====snip====snip====snip====snip====snip====snip====snip= table !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>? @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_ begin 644 kernel.cdiff.Z M'YV-*@*":!)F31DS:=B4\9. "IHZ(*:4@0,"1 T0,6KH@ %C(PZ,.7#D4-"Bz MY,""!Q.6:?@PXL2*-C#BV#A#1XT9($4J",BSIT\5.P7&8$$#1$^2)H=>+%E2y M044%*T $F9*@!X@Q8T"TR-J"2! 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evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans) (09/09/89)
In article <23502@louie.udel.EDU> I5110401%DBSTU1.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu writes: >... multiplications caused by the proc_addr() macro can be *totally avoided* >... create an array of pointers to process descriptors on startup ... >... division of two longs in the interrupt code ... to calculate proc number >... By adding a new field to the process structure this can be avoided These modifications are already in my 286 PM kernel, and so should be in 1.4b-PC. The old proc_addr() macro is better for constant proc numbers, so I renamed it cproc_addr() and kept it for those. I think my kernel gets used, but the code is not widely read. (?) -- Bruce Evans evans@ditsyda.oz.au