On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 14:11 +0200, Maciej Cencora wrote: > Dnia poniedziałek, 8 czerwca 2009 o 12:56:03 Michel Dänzer napisał(a): > > On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 17:42 +0200, Maciej Cencora wrote: > > > Dnia sobota, 6 czerwca 2009 o 17:09:28 Michel Dänzer napisał(a): > > > > > P.S. What are the plans for merging radeon-rewrite to master? I think > > > > it would be good to do it soon, so we'll have time to address issues > > > > before the 7.6 release. OTOH it seems to use perform a lot worse on my > > > > PowerBook than master, is it just me? > > > > > > Dave Airlie is going to merge it soon (IIRC he said something about this > > > weekend or next week). > > > > Unfortunately, on more extensive testing I hit a pretty bad regression > > of radeon-rewrite compared to master: if the X server uses the > > radeon-rewrite driver for AIGLX (compiz on DRI1), starting gliv or xmoto > > locks up the RV350 in my PowerBook. If the X server uses the master > > driver, both apps work fine even if they use the radeon-rewrite driver > > for direct rendering. > > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > I am not sure I understand. I does work when driver from master is loaded by > X > for AIGLX, and for 3D apps you use driver from radeon-rewrite or master?
That's right. It seems like the radeon-rewrite driver is doing something wrong when used for DRI1 AIGLX. > > > Does it perform a lot worse (compared to master branch) even without this > > > round of patches? > > > > Yes, AFAIR radeon-rewrite seemed to perform worse than master whenever I > > tried it. However, right now it doesn't seem as bad as before I wrote > > the above, so this may not be a blocker for the merge. > > What apps have you tested? Not a lot, apart from glxgears (about 16% drop) mostly xmoto. > Could you maybe provide us with sysprof reports from mesa and radeon-rewrite? Unfortunately, sysprof isn't available (yet?) on powerpc, but if I get time (don't hold your breath :} I'll try comparing with oprofile. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
