[PATCH] exa/mixed: Partially restore deferred pixmap handling for frontbuffer.

Maarten Maathuis madman2003 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 11:44:31 PST 2011


2011/2/10 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> On Don, 2011-02-10 at 20:15 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
>> - It turns out that part of the problem was actually on the driver side.
>> - The performance loss is not worth the small visual improvement.
>> - This should ensure low latency at low throughput.
>> - Performance loss seems about 5% instead of the previous 33%.
>
> As you've lowered the performance loss number again, I assume you mean
> 'high throughput' above. :)

I really mean low latency at low throughput (typing for example), the
performance loss is at high throughput which i should mention probably
:) The idea is to get the latency as low as possible without doing too
much to the maximum throughput.

>
>> - It's not needed to set deferred_mixed_pixmap to NULL, because
>>   exaDoMigration_mixed will handle that.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com>
>
> With the above fixed,
>
> Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>
>
>
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