[Intel-gfx] xf86-video-intel 2.5 release planning

[Carl Worth]

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:50 +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> > The *big* performance problem I fixed and mentioned in the blog post was
> > text rendering on i965. I know that the "EXA is slower than XAA" also
> > mentioned scrolling as a problem. I haven't looked at that yet, (nor
> > have I looked at i945 yet), but I hope to be able to soon.
> Any idea when the cache-glyphs-in-single-pixmap work will be
> integrated into Xorg?
> >From Owen's benchmarks it seems to push throughput to arround 500.000glyphs:
> http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/04/20/fast-text-use-a-single-cache-pixmap/

That work *is* already integrated.

Owen and I were recently chatting about this, and neither of us know why
I've never replicated performance like he saw. He's planning on
retesting with the latest code soon, and I'm interested in trying out
his server code with a driver checkout from mid-April or so to see if I
can replicate his results.

Of course, if anyone else wants to try that same experiment, that would
be great.

-Carl