Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] fbdev: Improve performance of fbdev console

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Hi,

merged with fixes for the typoes in the final patch. Thanks for reviewing.

Best regards
Thomas

Am 23.02.22 um 20:37 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
Optimize performance of the fbdev console for the common case of
software-based clearing and image blitting.

The commit descripton of each patch contains resuls os a simple
microbenchmark. I also tested the full patchset's effect on the
console output by printing directory listings (i7-4790, FullHD,
simpledrm, kernel with debugging).

   > time find /usr/share/doc -type f

In the unoptimized case:

   real    0m6.173s
   user    0m0.044s
   sys     0m6.107s

With optimizations applied:

   real    0m4.754s
   user    0m0.044s
   sys     0m4.698s

In the optimized case, printing the directory listing is ~25% faster
than before.

In v2 of the patchset, after implementing Sam's suggestion to update
cfb_imageblit() as well, it turns out that the compiled code in
sys_imageblit() is still significantly slower than the CFB version. A
fix is probably a larger task and would include architecture-specific
changes. A new TODO item suggests to investigate the performance of the
various helpers and format-conversion functions in DRM and fbdev.

v3:
	* fix description of cfb_imageblit() patch (Pekka)
v2:
	* improve readability for sys_imageblit() (Gerd, Sam)
	* new TODO item for further optimization

Thomas Zimmermann (5):
   fbdev: Improve performance of sys_fillrect()
   fbdev: Improve performance of sys_imageblit()
   fbdev: Remove trailing whitespaces from cfbimgblt.c
   fbdev: Improve performance of cfb_imageblit()
   drm: Add TODO item for optimizing format helpers

  Documentation/gpu/todo.rst             |  22 +++++
  drivers/video/fbdev/core/cfbimgblt.c   | 107 ++++++++++++++++---------
  drivers/video/fbdev/core/sysfillrect.c |  16 +---
  drivers/video/fbdev/core/sysimgblt.c   |  49 ++++++++---
  4 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)


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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev

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