Performance regression in ast drm driver

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann at suse.de
Tue Nov 13 12:16:11 UTC 2018


Hi

Am 13.11.18 um 13:08 schrieb Jean Delvare:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:23:45 +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> ast doesn't remove the vesafb's framebuffer before attaching to the
>> device. I have a patch at [1]. If you have a way of testing it, I'd
>> appreciate.
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112963
> 
> Thank you very much for looking into this bug. I tested the patch above
> and yes, it solves my console performance problem. The performance with
> your patch applied is roughly the same as with commit "drm/drivers: add
> support for using the arch wc mapping API" reverted.
> 

Great. I'll add it to SLE and also send it upstream soonish. Let's see
what Edward reports. Thanks for building a kernel for him.

Best regards
Thomas

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