Mention attempt to remove i830WaitSync

[cworth.org] / src / exa / mozilla_i965_profiles.mdwn

diff --git a/src/exa/mozilla_i965_profiles.mdwn b/src/exa/mozilla_i965_profiles.mdwn
index bb066ca85b8e4b33a60cd8fc3254c849e12a0e56..4f61d5b3fc5a18008fa66396d7617d3b0c11dcbd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/exa/mozilla_i965_profiles.mdwn
+++ b/src/exa/mozilla_i965_profiles.mdwn
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+[[meta title="Profiles for Mozilla Trender on i965"]]
+
+[[tag exa performance xorg]]
+
+
 I recently [[posted|mozilla_trender]] results showing EXA (and XAA)
 performing quite badly on the Mozilla Trender benchmarks. As a
 reminder, here is the chart showing the results on an i965 card:
@@ -87,3 +92,9 @@ A quick glimpse at the
 assignment statements, and then a "long sequence of commands needed to
 set up the 3D rendering pipe". Is any of that setup redundant and
 could it be easily eliminated?
+
+I noticed two calls to i830WaitSync which seemed to have "slowdown"
+written all over them. But I ran with these two calls removed and
+didn't notice any change in the performance, (and if they were causing
+a problem, shouldn't they have shown up separately in the profile
+anyway?).