From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 29842] Radeon runs very hot
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:09:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1298707778.7092.12.camel@thor.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D67E2BE.1060007@cfl.rr.com>
On Fre, 2011-02-25 at 12:11 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
>
> It seems like the GPU is executing a few different microcode kernels
> that process commands placed into ring buffers. When the ring buffers
> are empty and the gui is idle, it seems like the GPU is still busily
> executing an infinite loop checking for work in the ring buffers.
As has been pointed out by Alex, that's not true to the best of our
knowledge.
> Shouldn't the driver detect the idle condition and issue an
> r600_cp_stop() to halt execution and stop wasting power?
Feel free to try it, but I wouldn't expect it to make much if any
difference.
Did you check that your card runs significantly cooler in the other OS
before starting all this ruckus? (Though even if it does, the lack of
clock gating might explain the difference)
--
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Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-24 19:24 [Bug 29842] New: Radeon runs very hot bugzilla-daemon
2011-02-25 14:54 ` [Bug 29842] " bugzilla-daemon
2011-02-25 17:11 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-25 17:35 ` Matt Turner
2011-02-26 8:09 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2011-02-26 15:40 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-26 17:35 ` Alex Deucher
2011-03-01 0:40 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-03-01 3:19 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-03-01 3:43 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-03-01 3:49 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-03-01 19:58 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-03-01 21:06 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-03-01 21:09 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-04-12 1:22 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-04-12 2:26 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-04-12 16:35 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-06-27 12:44 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-06-27 19:12 ` bugzilla-daemon
2011-07-02 11:57 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-02-22 16:56 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-02-23 6:45 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-03-19 10:50 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-19 14:01 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-19 16:35 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-05-12 15:13 ` bugzilla-daemon
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