This series looks really good to me. I can confirm it gives a 241%
transfer rate increase in that little pboUnpack test on BayTrail.
Assuming the minor comments I made are fixed and the v2 patch for the
pthread_once thingy is used then the series is:
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts
Regards,
- Neil
Ja
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Jason Ekstrand
wrote:
> This series adds support for doing texture up/downloads using the render
> pipeline instead of the blitter. There are a number of good reasons for
> doing so.
>
> 1) The blitter is commonly thought to be slower than the render pipeline
>
This series adds support for doing texture up/downloads using the render
pipeline instead of the blitter. There are a number of good reasons for
doing so.
1) The blitter is commonly thought to be slower than the render pipeline
in terms of its access to memory.
2) The blitter is on a diffe