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From: Peter Surda <shurdeek@panorama.sth.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: memcpy to videoram eats too much CPU on ATI cards (cache trashing?)
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:40:44PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> However, as the X server manages to finish doing what it has to do before
> the next timer tick, it will almost never get a timer tick accounted to i=
t.
Yes, I also realised that, and other people also seem to think it is this w=
ay.

So the conclusion is basically that the card can't chew data that fast and I
should use busmastering instead of memcpy (and other drivers should do that
too because "hidden load" occurs anyway). I'm working on it.

Thanks to all who replied, I am as always pleased by the cooperation in
open-source world and wish everyone good luck. Yeah, and linux rocks of cou=
rse
:-)

> 			Roger.=20
Bye,

Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <shurdeek@panorama.sth.ac.at>, ICQ 10236103, +436505=
122023

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