Robert Noland wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 16:53 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> Robert Noland wrote: >>> I've been working on the Intel vblank / irq issues. Every time I commit >>> something thinking that I have it resolved, it isn't. So I'm waiting on >>> hardware to arrive that will let me test this all more thoroughly. I do >>> have a patch that I think fixes most of the issues on Intel, but the ddx >>> driver is still doing some silly things that cause issues in some cases. >>> I *think* the only outstanding issue I have with Intel is if something >>> is rendering (synced to vblank or not) when the display goes into dpms >>> sleep, there isn't anything to block that app, so it renders as hard as >>> it can even though it isn't being displayed. In reality, this probably >>> isn't a huge issue, but running gears while the display is asleep keeps >>> the cpu at 100%, which isn't ideal. Normal apps that aren't trying to >>> draw as fast as they can, shouldn't cause an issue. >> With the latest drm, the IRQ craziness is gone. However, the crappy >> performance remains. 2 months ago a RELENG_7 with all packages >> up to date yielded 124fps in a q3 timedemo that now yields 80fps. > > Things are still not quite right with the Intel driver. But performance > regressions are reported across Linux as well. A little of this might > be us, but most of it is Intel... > > robert. >
After a couple of hours uptime (~9), the IRQ problem reappeared. So, it takes a lot more time to occur, but it still happens. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
