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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-22 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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