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From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "drm/i915: Kill GTT mappings when moving from GTT domain"
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:09:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yun62nzxdj2.fsf@aiko.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <013811$h8tfb@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com>


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On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:49:36 +0100, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:

> The patch closes a race condition. The essence of your complaint is that
> the kernel is not as fast as we need it to be, and that the initial upload
> to any object is slower than expected. I presume you also have a plan for
> fixing the underwhelming performance of a glibc memcpy through an
> established GTT mapping?

I see a performance regression in a critical path for most applications
(texture upload), and I'm not seeing any bug report that your fix
closes. That seems pretty conclusive to me; I'll plan on pushing a
revert of this patch to eliminate the regression from the previous
version.

-- 
keith.packard@intel.com

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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-14 23:43 [PATCH] Revert "drm/i915: Kill GTT mappings when moving from GTT domain" Eric Anholt
2011-06-15  9:39 ` Chris Wilson
2011-06-15 15:08   ` Eric Anholt
2011-06-15 16:03     ` Chris Wilson
2011-06-17 19:06       ` Eric Anholt
2011-06-18 11:43         ` Chris Wilson
2011-06-18 20:20           ` Eric Anholt
2011-06-19 16:28             ` Chris Wilson
2011-06-19 17:01               ` Eric Anholt
2011-06-19 17:14                 ` Chris Wilson
2011-06-19 21:20                   ` Eric Anholt
2011-06-19 21:49                     ` Chris Wilson
2011-06-21 16:17                       ` Remove the overhead of vm_insert_pfn() Chris Wilson
2011-06-21 16:17                         ` [PATCH 1/3] resource: Use a common string for .name = "System RAM" Chris Wilson
2011-06-21 16:17                         ` [PATCH 2/3] x86, pat: Perform interval rbtree lookup of memtype first Chris Wilson
2011-06-21 16:17                         ` [PATCH 3/3] x86, pat: Convert memtype_lock spinlock to a rwlock Chris Wilson
2011-06-21 18:09                       ` Keith Packard [this message]

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