From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1943f45852005fee3e64a228e74f967f@quanstro.net> References: <35168f900e5e784f9f7091c3249d720f@plan9.bell-labs.com> <1943f45852005fee3e64a228e74f967f@quanstro.net> From: Venkatesh Srinivas Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:29:12 -0400 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver Topicbox-Message-UUID: 084e83de-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Tue Jun 9 17:20:12 EDT 2009, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: >> I've just pushed out kernel sources and binaries to incorporate >> Aki's mtrr and vesa changes. The combination makes monitor=vesa >> run quite a bit faster; we saw a factor of three speed improvement >> in one case. What got three times faster? Do you have some kind of tool to measure draw performance overall? (I ask because I'm currently working on a 'drawperf', some that runs tests similar to x11perf and xrender on drawing speed, but I'm stuck and was hoping something like this exists....) >> It's still limited to a single processor, but we've got someone >> investigating ways to fix that. We have rsc's 8i in contrib; would executing VESA BIOS operations in it be the best way to support MP? Thanks very much! -- vs