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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:10:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87b1e377877b7285828eab6953685345@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d3530220907140903j55400f88h77301749c5b50f51@mail.gmail.com>

> I believe I properly applied the pat patch, but I'm not really seeing
> any improvement. At least, it still takes fully two seconds to bring
> one large window in front of another.

that's because the screen is not double-buffered.  pat or mtrr do
not improve reads from video memory.  there is no such thing
as read combining.  and on some nvidia cards, especially the pcie
ones i have, reads from video memory are really slow.

> Did you change anything with the nvidia driver when applying the mtrr
> patch? I was under the impression that the applied patch only affected
> the vesa driver.

only the one line previously posted.  (a similar change was made to the
vesa driver, of course.)

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-14 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-13 23:57 john
2009-07-14  2:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14  5:23   ` John Floren
2009-07-14 12:06     ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 16:03       ` John Floren
2009-07-14 16:10         ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-07-14 16:23           ` John Floren
2009-07-14 16:49             ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14  4:42 ` lucio
2009-07-14  6:24 ` cinap_lenrek

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