Bug 20465

Summary:

drawing performance is in the same order of magnitude as deluxe paint iv on an amiga 500 :)

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Adam Pigg <adam>

Component:

Driver/intel

Assignee:

Carl Worth <cworth>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

medium

Keywords:

NEEDINFO

Version:

7.4 (2008.09)

Hardware:

Other

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
xorg config	none
xorg log with vesa driver	none
xorg log with intel driver	none

Description Adam Pigg 2009-03-04 12:43:23 UTC

Hi

First the basics, intel x3100 (i965) laptop, 3gb ram, 1440x900 display.
Intel 2.6.2, xorg 1.6, kernel 2.6.27rc6

Second the detail:
I have some drawing code in Qt, which loops round and draws a background grid.
Here are the timings for several configurations:

Configuration                                       Time Taken (approx ms)
==========================================================================
Qt4.5 native gfx, kde4.2.1 with 3d desktop           2000
Qt4.5 native gfx, kde4.2.1 with no composite         6500
Qt4.5 raster gfx, kde4.2.1 with 3d desktop           12 (yes 12)
Qt4.5 native gfx, VESA driver, no composite          350

As you can see, the x11 drawing is much much slower than the ideal of 12ms, but is also many times slower than if using the vesa driver.

There is nothing out of the ordinary in my xorg.conf, which is attached.

Comment 1 Adam Pigg 2009-03-04 12:44:24 UTC

Created attachment 23528 [details]
xorg config

Comment 2 Adam Pigg 2009-03-04 12:44:57 UTC

Created attachment 23529 [details]
xorg log with vesa driver

Comment 3 Adam Pigg 2009-03-04 12:45:24 UTC

Created attachment 23530 [details]
xorg log with intel driver

Comment 4 Adam Pigg 2009-03-04 14:03:49 UTC

Using UXA is a bit of an improvement

Qt4.5 native, kde 4.2.1 no composite              600-1200 msecs

but still feels sluggish compared to vesa

Comment 5 Adam Pigg 2009-03-04 14:05:20 UTC

Same as above, but with compositing, approx 100msec slower, so 700-1300

Comment 6 Eric Anholt 2009-07-13 16:57:33 UTC

Can you post your code?  We won't be able to do much without it.

Comment 7 Adam Pigg 2009-07-14 08:14:38 UTC

With current drivers, performance with kde4 3d compositing is approx 300ms, which is pretty good, you still want to see the code or would you say its as good as its gonna get now?

Comment 8 Eric Anholt 2009-07-15 17:16:41 UTC

If we're now 10x faster than at the time of the bug report, and the same speed as software, I consider this bug fixed.  If you've got specific codepaths that seem to be slower than they should be, opening a new bug report with short demo code may help (though we already have some bugs open with demo code, notably PutImage performance).

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