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

[Michel Dänzer]

On Don, 2011-02-10 at 20:44 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote: 
> 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), [...]

That was always covered by the BlockHandler. Your problem was only due
to the BlockHandler not getting called for a long time (and/or the
driver not flushing properly in its own BlockHandler).


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