From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH] radeonfb(): memmove() fix -- this one works ;-) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:36:22 +1000 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1082543782.2076.66.camel@gaston> References: <1082339577.15101.4.camel@gaston> <12573.10.250.10.1.1082504618.squirrel@sq01.pol.net> <1082507437.2077.28.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGF6x-0003yU-MJ for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 03:37:47 -0700 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57] ident=root) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30) id 1BGF6x-0007ep-9d for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 03:37:47 -0700 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Antonino Daplas , James Simmons , eger-dated-1082943669.d79d33@theboonies.us, Linux Fbdev development list On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 18:28, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I find that a soft copyarea is always expensive than a soft imageblit as a > > > copyarea will involve an fb read (10-20x slower than fb write). Tested > > > this before with an old pci nvidia card. Not o sure with newer hardware. > > > > I confirm, reading from the fb shall be avoided at all cost > > This is true for PCI/AGP, but may not be true for unified memory systems. Right, but that confirms my opinion that the choice of the technique used shall be under control of the driver Ben. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click