Re: [PATCH 0/2] OMAPDSS: write-through caching support for omapfb

2012-05-25 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkei...@ti.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 22:54 +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: I ran my own fb perf test on omap3 overo board (perf test in https://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/omapfb-tests) : vram_cache=n:

Re: [PATCH 0/2] OMAPDSS: write-through caching support for omapfb

2012-05-24 Thread Tomi Valkeinen
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 22:54 +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: This is a very simple few-liner patchset, which allows to optionally enable write-through caching for OMAP DSS framebuffer. The problem with the current writecombine cacheability attribute is that it only speeds up writes. Uncached

[PATCH 0/2] OMAPDSS: write-through caching support for omapfb

2012-05-22 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
This is a very simple few-liner patchset, which allows to optionally enable write-through caching for OMAP DSS framebuffer. The problem with the current writecombine cacheability attribute is that it only speeds up writes. Uncached reads are slow, even though the use of NEON mitigates this problem

Re: [PATCH 0/2] OMAPDSS: write-through caching support for omapfb

2012-05-22 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Siarhei Siamashka siarhei.siamas...@gmail.com wrote: And at least for ARM11 and Cortex-A8 processors, the performance of write-through cache is really good. Cortex-A9 is another story, because all pages marked as Write-Through are supposedly treated as