Re: io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patches
for 2.6.27-rc1)
[Posted November 4, 2008 by corbet]
| From: |
| Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org> |
| To: |
| Dave Airlie <airlied-AT-gmail.com> |
| Subject: |
| Re: io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patches
for 2.6.27-rc1) |
| Date: |
| Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:36:45 -0800 (PST) |
| Message-ID: |
| <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811030833340.3459@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> |
| Cc: |
| Keith Packard <keithp-AT-keithp.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo-AT-elte.hu>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes-AT-virtuousgeek.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin-AT-yahoo.com.au>,
Dave Airlie <airlied-AT-linux.ie>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai-AT-kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org> |
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> So I've put these patches into Fedora rawhide kernel to test, and
> glxgears on my 945G hw went from 85fps to 380fps, clearly we would want
> these patches upstream sooner rather than later.
I'm inclined to agree. Not that I think 380fps sounds very impressive (I
get 850+ fps with _software_ rendering, for chissake), but because 85 fps
is a joke, and clearly without this setup there's not even any point to
try to do any other optimizations.
And if we're looking at the patches being in Fedora anyway, there really
is no reason not to merge them. Even if it's out of the merge window.
Ingo?
Linus
