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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Cc: James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Re: improving VNC performance
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:33:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2E7BD9.6050309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110726082716.GA29346@ocelot.phlegethon.org>

On 07/26/2011 10:27 AM, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 08:45 +0200 on 26 Jul (1311669952), Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 07/26/2011 04:00 AM, James Harper wrote:
>>> It would be really nice to be able to cut&paste (would require a
>>> userspace app), and to fake some accelerator functions (eg block moves).
>>
>> Block moves are accelerated if you use the Cirrus VGA.  Nothing else is,
>> though. :)
>
> Actually we found that it's faster to turn that acceleration off, since
> it's not really accelerated --- it'll be a memcpy either in domU or in
> qemu, and you might as well skip the (slow, synchronous) emulated
> register writes that domU would use to drive the blitter.

Yes, it's slower but saves bandwidth.  It depends on your use case.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-26  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-26  2:00 improving VNC performance James Harper
2011-07-26  2:22 ` Todd Deshane
2011-07-26  9:17   ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-07-26 10:54     ` James Harper
2011-07-26  6:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-26  8:27   ` Tim Deegan
2011-07-26  8:33     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-07-26 10:52     ` James Harper
2011-07-26  8:44 ` Jean Guyader
2011-07-26  9:53   ` Jean Guyader

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