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--- Comment #23 from Tobias Jakobi <liquid.acid@gmx.net>  2010-03-22 16:01:14 ---
I totally forgot about this one:

To summarize what _my_ problem was...
I found out that the slowdowns were only affecting 32bit application (which
includes everything pushed through wine) and also ut2003, which I used for
testing. ioquake3 was compiled for 64bit (and it wasn't affected).
I probably never had any direct HW-accelerated rendering for 32bit applications
in the first place, but I didn't notice this because the indirect rendering
(which was selected by default, don't ask me why) wasn't that slow. Now it was
either an update to mesa or the mesa gentoo ebuild that "fixed" a problem, so
that NOW the sw rasterizer was now loaded by default (I looked like that
loading of the 32bit swrast failed in the past, resulting in indirect GLX). Of
course this resulted in awfully slow rendering.

After creating custom libdrm and mesa libs in /usr/local/lib32/ and also doing
a check with 32bit glxinfo the whole rendering is now HW-accelerated, slowdowns
are gone for good :)

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--- Comment #20 from Tobias Jakobi <liquid.acid@gmx.net>  2010-02-20 00:03:17 ---
No, nothing - doesn't have any effect on performance. Must be something else.
I'm still wondering though since I already went back several weeks in git with
xf86-video-ati, libdrm and mesa and the problem still occurs... have to think
about what I updated in the past. :(

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--- Comment #19 from Tobias Jakobi <liquid.acid@gmx.net>  2010-02-19 23:49:06 ---
I just went back to commit db78e27de7e2 and reverted then - I'm now building
that tree. Reporting back once I've done some tests.

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--- Comment #18 from Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>  2010-02-19 23:44:25 ---
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> I get an error with git when trying to revert the commit, so I just tried the
> two patches.

You'll need to revert f0e2f38befa7 first.

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--- Comment #17 from Tobias Jakobi <liquid.acid@gmx.net>  2010-02-19 23:36:50 ---
I get an error with git when trying to revert the commit, so I just tried the
two patches.

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--- Comment #16 from Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>  2010-02-19 22:49:18 ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> I'm experiencing similar problems on my RV740 which is hooked up through the
> PCIe.
> 
> I first noticed the issue when updating drm-radeon-testing and
> mesa+xf86-video-ati+libdrm to git master.
> 
> I'm now using the latest drm-linus branch, which should fix this problem - but
> apparantly not for me. Maybe it's just similar...
> 
> Anyway, I now have a average performance of 4fps in CS 1.5. The funny thing is
> that quake3 is running with around 300fps when not limiting the fps. However
> that's the only application I have currently installed that does that. Every
> other OpenGL game I tested slows down to a crawl.
> 
> I also tried both patches here on drm-radeon-testing prior to checking out
> drm-linus. Applying them there makes no difference to the performance.

Have you tried reverting db78e27de7e2?

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--- Comment #15 from Tobias Jakobi <liquid.acid@gmx.net>  2010-02-19 22:35:26 ---
I'm experiencing similar problems on my RV740 which is hooked up through the
PCIe.

I first noticed the issue when updating drm-radeon-testing and
mesa+xf86-video-ati+libdrm to git master.

I'm now using the latest drm-linus branch, which should fix this problem - but
apparantly not for me. Maybe it's just similar...

Anyway, I now have a average performance of 4fps in CS 1.5. The funny thing is
that quake3 is running with around 300fps when not limiting the fps. However
that's the only application I have currently installed that does that. Every
other OpenGL game I tested slows down to a crawl.

I also tried both patches here on drm-radeon-testing prior to checking out
drm-linus. Applying them there makes no difference to the performance.

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--- Comment #14 from John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>  2010-02-19 18:47:23 ---
The patch from comment 13 is acceptable, but my "seat of the pants" feeling is
that the first patch performed better.  FWIW the load average seemed 20-30%
lower with the first patch too, but I didn't do exhaustive testing by any
means.

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Created an attachment (id=25118)
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ttm_set_caching_nopat_2.patch

This patch uses a simpler approach, would you mind checking that it has the
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--- Comment #12 from John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>  2010-02-19 15:00:57 ---
Yup, that looks good...thanks!

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--- Comment #11 from John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>  2010-02-19 14:23:30 ---
Sorry for the delay...

CONFIG_X86_PAT=y

Building w/ patch from comment 9 now.

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--- Comment #10 from Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>  2010-02-18 19:14:55 ---
BTW, sorry for not taking care of this before.

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--- Comment #9 from Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>  2010-02-18 18:53:42 ---
Created an attachment (id=25107)
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ttm_set_caching_nopat.patch

I guess the attached patch fixes it. However it might make sense to fix the PAT
code instead because this interface is somewhat annoying.

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--- Comment #8 from Jérôme Glisse <glisse@freedesktop.org>  2010-02-18 17:02:45 ---
Ok so it's more likely because on non PAT get_page_memtype always return -1
thus we always do set_wb and if page were already wb it likely kill perf. I
don't think we ever do WC -> UC or UC -> WC.

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Yes, radeon is wrong, i am tracking down why we are doing WC -> UC or UC -> WC

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--- Comment #6 from bjaglin <bjaglin@free.fr>  2010-02-18 01:59:51 ---
Same problem here on a T40 (Radeon 9000 - RV250), extremely sluggish for
>=2.6.33-rc7. Reverting the commit mentioned above seems to fix the problem.

If that's what you are asking, cat /proc/cpuinfo does not show "pat" as a flag
on my Pentium M (SL7EG).

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--- Comment #5 from Pauli <suokkos@gmail.com>  2010-02-17 22:25:34 ---
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> I have no idea at to how serious a problem the commit fixed.  But I know it is
> causing a serious problem on my T41.  Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't get the
> feeling that the patch author is too interested in fixing the problem his patch
> created.  Since we are late in the 2.6.33 cycle, I would prefer to see this
> reverted under the "we don't exchange one bug for another" policy.

Does your kernel have PAT enabled?

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--- Comment #4 from John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>  2010-02-17 22:06:22 ---
I have no idea at to how serious a problem the commit fixed.  But I know it is
causing a serious problem on my T41.  Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't get the
feeling that the patch author is too interested in fixing the problem his patch
created.  Since we are late in the 2.6.33 cycle, I would prefer to see this
reverted under the "we don't exchange one bug for another" policy.

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--- Comment #3 from Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>  2010-02-16 21:24:27 ---
Really, The Radeon driver *should* never change caching policy from WC to UC,
and thus never hit the code path affected by that patch. However if it does,
and particularly if it does frequently it's quite natural that the patch causes
severe CPU overhead since transition from WC->WB->UC causes a cache flush
whereas WC->UC doesn't.

Maybe Jerome has some input?

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--- Comment #2 from John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>  2010-02-16 20:43:30 ---
Definitely the same commit, and sounds more-or-less like the same problem. 
Although in the report above it doesn't sound that terrible whereas on this T41
(single 1.6GHz i686) it cripples the box.

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[Bug 15328] high load avg, extreme sluggishness on T41 w/ Radeon Mobility M7

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Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com>  2010-02-16 20:36:49 ---
It was also reported here :
http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg47164.html

I asked curro about it but he had no idea :
17:13 < shining> curro__: did you see "Problem with drm-radeon-testing commit -
drm/ttm: Avoid conflicting reserve_memtype during ttm_tt_set_page_caching." ?
17:20 < curro__> shining: not sure about that

It seems to be an issue only for few radeon users.

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