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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <enrico.weigelt@gr13.net>
Cc: dri devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Frame buffer access performance
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:23:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160805092348.GC6232@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57A45695.9060804@gr13.net>

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 11:04:21AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 05.08.2016 10:15, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > There's a driver cap DRM_CAP_DUMB_PREFER_SHADOW for this. If set,
> > render into a shadow buffer and copy over in bursts, otherwise you
> > can assume that the memory is fully cpu cached and fast with random
> > access.
> 
> aaaah!
> 
> nekrad@orion:~/src/linux$ git grep prefer_shadow drivers/gpu/drm/i915
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:   dev->mode_config.prefer_shadow = 1;
> 
> IOW: i915 driver (my notebook here has an i915) sets that flag, so
> it seems my guess is right.
> 
> Do we already have some suitable double-buffer helpers, which can detect
> changed regions and copy over in bursts, so userland doesn't
> need extra logic for that ? (hmm, maybe some cow + pagefault magic?)
> 
> ... seems I need to give it some further thoughts ...

DIRTY_FB ioctl. But that's for other manual uplaod displays and similar
things.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-05  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-05  2:35 Frame buffer access performance Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2016-08-05  8:15 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-05  9:04   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2016-08-05  9:23     ` Daniel Vetter [this message]

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