tiling support in EXA

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:58 PM, fancy fang <fancyfly09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, all
>          CreatePixmap2 was added to ExaDriverRec for drivers with tiling
> support. I can not understand what the tiling means. Anyone can explain for
> me? Thanks a lot!

Tiling is a method of laying out data in the framebuffer to maximize
cache locality and memoy bandwidth.  See this post for a more detailed
description:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showpost.php?p=131301&postcount=37

Alex

>
> Best wishes,
>
> Fancy
>
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