Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 15:10:33 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: powerd broken Message-ID: <4A0580C9.6050902@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <1241870806.1733.61.camel@balrog.2hip.net> 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>
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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 commit >>>>> something thinking that I have it resolved, it isn't. So I'm waiting 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 the ddx >>>>> driver is still doing some silly things that cause issues in some cases. >>>>> I *think* the only outstanding issue I have with Intel is if something >>>>> is rendering (synced to vblank or not) when the display goes into dpms >>>>> sleep, there isn't anything to block that app, so it renders as hard as >>>>> it can even though it isn't being displayed. In reality, this probably >>>>> isn't a huge issue, but running gears while the display is asleep keeps >>>>> 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 performance >>> regressions are reported across Linux as well. A little of this might >>> 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). > > 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? 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. > robert. > >> Thanks a lot. >> >> Regards
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