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- From: liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: 57.6Kbps under Linux -- some results...
- Message-ID: <LILJEBER.92Sep12221433@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 20:14:33 GMT
- References: <!nwn!6h.harp@netcom.com>
- Sender: liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Lines: 37
- In-Reply-To: harp@netcom.com's message of 12 Sep 92 13: 26:38 GMT
-
- In article <!nwn!6h.harp@netcom.com> harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) wrote:
- > Well, since I opened my big mouth and said that 57.6Kbps probably
- > wasn't possible, I ended up doing some experimenting with exactly
- > that.
- >
- > I'll summarize for those who don't want to read the whole thing. I
- > can _almost_ do 57.6Kbps with my 50Mhz 486DX. I only have 16450
- > UARTs, so those of you with 16550A UARTs and very fast machines should
- > be able to do it.
-
- I doubt you even need a "very fast machine". Most of the overhead of
- handling the serial port comes from IRQ overhead and a 16550A UART is
- a big help there. It has a 16 character FIFO, which (theoretically)
- means that it generates only one interrupt every 16 characters, whereas
- the 16450 generates an interrupt for each character. I say theoretically,
- because the 16550A UART is usually programmed so that it will generate
- an interrupt every 8 characters, or so. At 115200 bps this will bring
- the number of interrupts down to what 16450 generates at 14400 bps, and
- still allow for some 0.7 ms of interrupt latency (it takes about 0.7 ms
- to fill the rest of the FIFO). This should be a piece of cake for most
- 386 machines.
-
- > Later folks...
- > Greg
- > --
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