On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, manu wrote: > Le 16.01.2004 00:55:48, Mark Vojkovich a écrit : > > I don't see anything out of the ordinary. This looks like > > perfectly normal data for a graphics engine programmed by > > memory mapped I/O. > > > > Mark. > > OK then my mistake. I was just surprised by the bad results of hw accel > compared to software ops. I guess this is due to the overhead of > programming the hw, or am I completely wrong? The only places that I notice where software is faster than hardware is for things like 1x1 rectangles. The overhead of programming the hardware is higher than just writing a single dword to the framebuffer in that case. Those types of hardware operations can be faster than software if you are using DMA and processing large batches at a time, but rarely are for memory mapped I/O. > Anyway does this is taken into account when drawing something? I mean > it is sometimes stupid to use hw accel for some ops, are the drivers > able to do that correctly? Mixing software and hardware rendering is bad because software and hardware rendering can only be synchronized by waiting for the hardware to go idle. Attempts to improve x11perf performance by falling back to software for small primitives will generally hurt real-life performance. Mark. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
