Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 08:13:37 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: powerd broken Message-ID: <1241874817.71435.1.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <4A0580C9.6050902@bsdforen.de> References: <1238293386.00093672.1238281804@10.7.7.3> <49CF0803.1070505@FreeBSD.org> <49CF2F8D.6000905@bsdforen.de> <49CF4EB9.60108@FreeBSD.org> <49CF49F5.6010800@bsdforen.de> <49CF615A.6050304@FreeBSD.org> <49CF595A.30805@bsdforen.de> <49CF6B28.2080400@FreeBSD.org> <49CF60AB.4040709@bsdforen.de> <49CF6899.2060002@bsdforen.de> <49CF8E8D.1080604@bsdforen.de> <49CF9C19.3020509@FreeBSD.org> <49D5DA33.4010800@bsdforen.de> <1238778004.65025.30.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <49DF5D60.9010803@bsdforen.de> <1239384104.1922.70.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4A053E52.5030602@bsdforen.de> <1241870806.1733.61.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4A0580C9.6050902@bsdforen.de>
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--=-tH3pDxOEQHJPlcDA+LwW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 15:10 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Robert Noland wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 10:26 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> Robert Noland wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 16:53 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >>>> Robert Noland wrote: > >>>>> I've been working on the Intel vblank / irq issues. Every time I c= ommit > >>>>> something thinking that I have it resolved, it isn't. So I'm waiti= ng on > >>>>> hardware to arrive that will let me test this all more thoroughly. = I do > >>>>> have a patch that I think fixes most of the issues on Intel, but th= e ddx > >>>>> driver is still doing some silly things that cause issues in some c= ases. > >>>>> I *think* the only outstanding issue I have with Intel is if someth= ing > >>>>> is rendering (synced to vblank or not) when the display goes into d= pms > >>>>> sleep, there isn't anything to block that app, so it renders as har= d as > >>>>> it can even though it isn't being displayed. In reality, this prob= ably > >>>>> isn't a huge issue, but running gears while the display is asleep k= eeps > >>>>> the cpu at 100%, which isn't ideal. Normal apps that aren't trying= to > >>>>> draw as fast as they can, shouldn't cause an issue. > >>>> With the latest drm, the IRQ craziness is gone. However, the crappy > >>>> performance remains. 2 months ago a RELENG_7 with all packages > >>>> up to date yielded 124fps in a q3 timedemo that now yields 80fps. > >>> Things are still not quite right with the Intel driver. But performa= nce > >>> regressions are reported across Linux as well. A little of this migh= t > >>> be us, but most of it is Intel... > >>> > >> I don't know what you did with the last update, but performance is now > >> better than ever (2% above what it used to be), which equels 3-4 more > >> frames in ioQuake3 or 200 more in glxgears. > >> > >> The uptime of the notebook is now 15 hours and the interrupt load > >> insignificant. I get no more than 8000 interrupts per seconds. > >> 4000 of these are CPU timers (2000 for each core) and 1000 more are > >> from my mouse, when I move it very fast. Around 2500 from vgapci, when > >> I run glxgears and the rest is just scraps of whatever else is running > >> (e.g. sound). > >=20 > > Which update, what? I haven't touched the kernel tree in a while, just > > trying to sort it all out with patches here and there. Are you saying > > the the 2.7.0 intel driver helped? Or maybe the Xserver or mesa > > updates? >=20 > I update my ports daily, without really looking at what. I think > xorg-server was one of them. It must have been something that happened > during the last 48 hours. Ok, well server, mesa and intel driver all got updates in my sweep the other day. robert. > > robert. > >=20 > >> Thanks a lot. > >> > >> Regards >=20 --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-tH3pDxOEQHJPlcDA+LwW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkoFgYEACgkQM4TrQ4qfROOq2wCfTUZFvywiqMiwkWUb++/+JMcR OBEAniwt6Ben4nOaAc7TeQQfmLRLt65E =ZMVU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tH3pDxOEQHJPlcDA+LwW--
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