Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] fbdev: Improve performance of cfb_imageblit()

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On 2/23/22 20:38, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Improve the performance of cfb_imageblit() by manually unrolling
> the inner blitting loop and moving some invariants out. The compiler
> failed to do this automatically. This change keeps cfb_imageblit()
> in sync with sys_imagebit().
> 
> A microbenchmark measures the average number of CPU cycles
> for cfb_imageblit() after a stabilizing period of a few minutes
> (i7-4790, FullHD, simpledrm, kernel with debugging).
> 
> cfb_imageblit(), new: 15724 cycles
> cfb_imageblit(): old: 30566 cycles
> 
> In the optimized case, cfb_imageblit() is now ~2x faster than before.
> 
> v3:
> 	* fix commit description (Pekka)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> ---

Makes sense, improves perf and makes the two more consistent as you mention.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat




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