Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 23:31 schrieb Keith Whitwell:
> Ian Romanick wrote:
> > Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> >> Slightly OT, but here's an article comparing XiG Summit, dri cvs and
> >> the ATI driver on a radeon 9000pro.
> >> http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/atilinux_oct03/ati_linux_comp_oc
> >>t03.html
> >>
> >>
> >> And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri
> >> driver is quite a bit slower (up to 50% in some subtests) in
> >> SpecViewPerf compared to the cvs version of july? Could this be
> >> related to the changes with GLX_NV_vertex_array_range,
> >> GLX_MESA_agp_offset, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory (the only extensions
> >> which changed in that timeframe) or must this be something else?
> >
> > It is probably because some code paths were disabled in the r200 driver
> > due to serious bugs. This bugs prevented UT 2k3 from running at all.
>
> The problem is (probably) due to excessive flushing introduced by the
> changes Ian referenced. I had time to put together a patch, but at that
> point was having real issues getting CVS to compile. These are probably at
> my end, but before they were resolved I got sidetracked again.
>
> I've attached the patch if someone wants to run with it in the meantime.
> It hasn't been tested at all.
GREAT work Keith!
This one brought "old" performance (VTK -> TimeRenderer|2) (nearly) back.
Haven't had time to test it before but found it in the trunk, now.
Greetings,
Dieter
BTW Couldn't test "ipers" etc. 'cause SuSE 9.0 do NOT let me compile MesaCVS
with shared libs (libtool)...;-(
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