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From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: "enable ctxprog xfer only when we need it to save
 power" introduces big performance regression
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:33:49 +0100
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To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 02:25:08AM +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 21:09 +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:29:23PM +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:08:01PM +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > I've bisected pretty big performance regression (nv92):
> > > > 
> > > > $ git bisect good
> > > > b2737681d5442f05ab6419e05468c3d2511a5ced is the first bad commit
> > > > commit b2737681d5442f05ab6419e05468c3d2511a5ced
> > > > Author: Martin Peres <martin.peres-Iz16wY1oaNPLSKGbIzaifA@public.gmane.org>
> > > > Date:   Sat Jul 30 23:08:45 2011 +0200
> > > > 
> > > >     drm/nv50/gr: enable ctxprog xfer only when we need it to save power
> > > 
> > > Weird, reverting it on top of current git does not restore it - in
> > > glxgears it's even worse (-~50%).
> > 
> > It seems "drm/nv50/gr: refactor initialisation" relies on the above.
> > 
> > So, reverting these commits:
> > 
> > drm/nv50/gr: typo fix, how about we not reset fifo during graph init?
> > drm/nv50/gr: refactor initialisation
> > drm/nv50/gr: enable ctxprog xfer only when we need it to save power
> > 
> > on top of current git restores performance to the previous state.
> > 
> > (First commit fixes bug in 2nd, so it needs to be reverted first)
> > 
> > Marcin
> 
> 
> could you extract the ctxprog blob uses on your system and post it?
> 

How can I extract it?

Marcin