[Nouveau] [PATCH] nouveau: avoid running out of relocs (attempt 5)

[Maarten Maathuis]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Patrice Mandin
<mandin.patrice at orange.fr> wrote:
> Le Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:07:37 +0100
> Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> a écrit:
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>> - Added flush notify functions for NV30 and NV40.
>> - NV30 and NV40 need testing (check for regressions).
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> Just tested for NV30, no visible regression, just a minor performance
> penalty. So it's OK for me.
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> Timedemo with ioquake3:
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> mesa git head:
> 1260 frames 31.5 seconds 40.0 fps 9.0/25.0/50.0/8.0 ms
> 1260 frames 31.4 seconds 40.1 fps 9.0/24.9/50.0/7.9 ms
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> with your patch, outofreloc.diff:
> 1260 frames 32.7 seconds 38.5 fps 9.0/26.0/52.0/8.2 ms
> 1260 frames 32.6 seconds 38.7 fps 9.0/25.8/51.0/8.1 ms

That means (i guess) that you were flushing more than state emit was
happening, since it's the same chunk of code just called after a flush
and not a state emit (which is not correct anyway). So as long as
rendering is still ok, i'm not worried.

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