[AG-TECH] PCI performance partial fix found
Robert Olson
olson at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Aug 21 12:13:35 CDT 2001
I was poking around in SuperMicro P6DBE bios settings, and found this:
USWC Write Post
The settings for this option are Enabled or Disabled. This option sets the
status of USWC (Uncacheable, Speculative, Write-Combining) posted writes
and is used to combine several partial writes to the frame buffer into a single
write in order to reduce the data bus traffic. Set to Enabled to enable USWC
posted writes to I/O. Set to Disabled to disable USWC posted writes to I/O.
When I disabled this setting in the BIOS, I got MUCH better performance
with video spread across both the PCI and AGP display heads (in a G450
AGP/PCI/PCI system, with dual heads in use on the G450 AGP).
--bob
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