Re: 2.6.9-rc1: scrolling with tdfxfb 5 times slower

Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-02T19:57:08Z

On Friday 03 September 2004 01:10, Paolo Ornati wrote:
> On Thursday 02 September 2004 14:20, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > Just to finalize everything, 2 more things:
> >
> > 1. Does changing the resolution affect the vyres upper limit?
>
> I have tried with 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 and the upper limit seems
> the same (I've also tried some combinations of resolution / BPP)
>
> > 2. What happens if you comment out banshee_wait_idle in tdfxfb_fillrect,
> > tdfxfb_copyarea and tdfxfb_imageblit? Scrolling should go faster but
> > will removing it cause additional screen corruption?
>
> scrolling is a bit faster and I don't notice any additional screen
> corruption
>
> time cat MAINTAINERS (2.6.9-rc1 + your patch / 800x600 8bpp / YRES 3200)
>
> normal: ~0.19
> without banshee_wait_idle in the three functions: ~0.12

Thanks for all the help. I'll finalize a patch soon.

Tony