Hello Thomas, On 2/17/22 11:34, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Improve the performance of sys_imageblit() by manually unrolling > the inner blitting loop and moving some invariants out. The compiler > failed to do this automatically. The resulting binary code was even > slower than the cfb_imageblit() helper, which uses the same algorithm, > but operates on I/O memory. > > A microbenchmark measures the average number of CPU cycles > for sys_imageblit() after a stabilizing period of a few minutes > (i7-4790, FullHD, simpledrm, kernel with debugging). The value > for CFB is given as a reference. > > sys_imageblit(), new: 25934 cycles > sys_imageblit(), old: 35944 cycles > cfb_imageblit(): 30566 cycles > > In the optimized case, sys_imageblit() is now ~30% faster than before > and ~20% faster than cfb_imageblit(). > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> > --- This patch looks good to me as well. Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
