http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15293





--- Comment #29 from MichaƂ Witkowski <ne...@o2.pl>  2010-02-28 16:24:11 ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> I vote for NOTOURBUG too. 
> 
> Maybe ddx could be a bit better optimized for XGetSubImage that flash is using
> but in end we can't get it perform well enough anyway without modifying the
> blob.
> 
> So what exactly is happening to slow down here:
> 
> -Flash is playing the video to vram.
> -Flash calls XGetSubImage multiple times per frame to read back the whole
> video.
> -XGetSubImage tries to copy data from VRAM to system memory but there seems to
> be huge latency for CPU to read the data that was just written by GPU.
> 
> Hack patch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLkGGNbBJeI ;)

Right. And what about the problem with in-Firefox videos that don't use flash?
I.e. comment #22? That also is miserably slow in KMS.

Also, if this bug gets NOTOURBUGged it would mean that flash video will be
terribly slow for all radeon KMS users, right? 

http://xkcd.com/619/ comes to mind ;)

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