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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	eich@suse.de
Subject: Re: [patch] context-switching overhead in X, ioport(), 2.6.8.1
Date: 22 Aug 2004 16:23:44 +0200
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:23:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040822142344.GA81458@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093176046.24272.68.camel@localhost.localdomain>

> Xorg and XFree assume the kernel will have intelligent limits. When the
> range went up the EnableIO code in turn switched to ioperm.

Which was the wrong thing to do since it is slower.

> 
> The actual code is:
> 
>        if (ioperm(0, 1024, 1) || iopl(3))
>                 FatalError("xf86EnableIOPorts: Failed to set IOPL for
> I/O\n")
> 
> (os-support/linux/lnx_video.c:xf86EnableIO)
> 
> Flip those around and rebuild.

It would be better to do that in the official release.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-22 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2vEzI-Vw-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-22 12:16 ` [patch] context-switching overhead in X, ioport(), 2.6.8.1 Andi Kleen
2004-08-22 12:00   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-22 14:23     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-08-22 14:47       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-22 17:31       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-21 13:55 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-22  4:46 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-22  5:42   ` Ryan Cumming
2004-08-22  6:00     ` Lee Revell
2004-08-22  6:06       ` Ryan Cumming

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