Hi,

On Sonntag 23 August 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Volker Armin
>
> Hemmann<volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > when I went from 4gb to 6gb I had a performance degradation. Since the
> > 8gb are faster and the new cpu is faster, I don't see degradation. But I
> > wonder how much better performance could be with 'correct' mtrr.
>
> that is weird. with 4g should have mem hole remapping.
>
> do you still have /proc/mtrr for 6g setup?
>
> YH

some more information, mtrr of 8gb with my X2 6000:

reg00: base=0x000000000 (    0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back
reg01: base=0x080000000 ( 2048MB), size= 1024MB, count=1: write-back
reg02: base=0x0c0000000 ( 3072MB), size=  128MB, count=1: write-back
reg03: base=0x0c8000000 ( 3200MB), size=   64MB, count=1: write-back
reg04: base=0x0cc000000 ( 3264MB), size=   32MB, count=1: write-back
reg05: base=0x0ce000000 ( 3296MB), size=   16MB, count=1: write-back

from June with 2.6.30, dmesg from that incident is attached

compared that with the mtrr with my X4:

reg00: base=0x000000000 (    0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back
reg01: base=0x080000000 ( 2048MB), size= 1024MB, count=1: write-back
reg02: base=0x0c0000000 ( 3072MB), size=  128MB, count=1: write-back


just ignore the fgrlx parts - whenever I checked it did not made a difference 
if X was started or not.