X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fexa%2Fmozilla_i965_profiles.mdwn;h=98cd7513a852c2b99f73056c0c89d50a7d914142;hb=5c014fe14d7a114dc525711d3236feb10f27177f;hp=bb066ca85b8e4b33a60cd8fc3254c849e12a0e56;hpb=f6729e526fdbee54930b5bb882bb020f9f9d8bf0;p=cworth.org diff --git a/src/exa/mozilla_i965_profiles.mdwn b/src/exa/mozilla_i965_profiles.mdwn index bb066ca..98cd751 100644 --- 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: @@ -77,7 +82,7 @@ reason? And here with EXA we see some good, and some really bad. The good news is that the pixman functions doing software compositing have disappeared from the top of the profile, leaving only software -rasterization. But what's with this new i965_prepare_composite +rasterization. But what's with this new `i965_prepare_composite` function that's taking even more time than all of libxul? That seems like rather excessive overhead. @@ -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?).