On 05/26/2011 10:13 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Running fbcon on an uncached framebuffer is remarkably slow. So try
> to enable write combining in efifb.
>
> Without this patch, it takes 5.8 seconds from efifb probe to i915
> probe (default options; no plymouth or quiet mode). With this patch,
> it only takes 1.7 seconds. That means we wasted over 4 seconds just
> writing to UC memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx>
Looks good:
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/video/efifb.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/efifb.c b/drivers/video/efifb.c
> index 4eb38db..a81c944 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/efifb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/efifb.c
> @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ static int __devinit efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> info->apertures->ranges[0].base = efifb_fix.smem_start;
> info->apertures->ranges[0].size = size_remap;
>
> - info->screen_base = ioremap(efifb_fix.smem_start, efifb_fix.smem_len);
> + info->screen_base = ioremap_wc(efifb_fix.smem_start, efifb_fix.smem_len);
> if (!info->screen_base) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "efifb: abort, cannot ioremap video memory "
> "0x%x @ 0x%lx\n",
--
Peter
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