[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.6.2

[Eric Anholt]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 19:13 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Eric Anholt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:10 +0100, Jacek Luczak wrote:
> >>
> >> this release is totally unusable while running in UXA. System eats lot of
> >> memory, including swapping. Is this that, reported earlier, ,,memory leak''? As
> >> a result X are really slow and lot of lockups occur (everything freeze for a few
> >> seconds). At the end I can't even switch to text console, but system reacts on
> >> power button and it goes down successfully. With EXA there's no such issue:
> >> total system memory usage around 40%, no lockups.
> >>
> >> If it's not know issue I will try to bisect it down.
> >>
> >> -Jacek
> >>
> >> ------------------
> >> Details:
> >> 	1. X.Org X Server 1.5.99.903 (1.6.0 RC 3)
> >> 	2. Linux Kernel 2.6.29-rc6
> > 
> > Can you give me exact steps to reproduce this leak?
> 
> Same problem here with libdrm 2.4.5, intel 2.6.2, Xserver 1.6-rc2,
> Mesa 7.3 on
> Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated
> Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)
> 
> Nothing specific needed to reproduce the problem, just use X :)
> As soon as I start a big application such as firefox ou thunderbird,
> my 1GB RAM is entirely used after a couple seconds and the system
> becomes verrrry slow.
> 
> Only downgrade intel to 2.6.1 => 200MB used, no problem.

I think the problem here was the DRI2 tiling fix, which was great for
the 915-class 3D performance regression but bad for 915-class 2D.  I've
pushed a fix to master that should help.  If it does, I'll try to get a
2.6.3 out soon.

commit 5bfd73cd31ba197a62f549cdbad1a1270b571027
Author: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
Date:   Fri Feb 27 19:09:49 2009 -0800

    Only allocate pixmaps aligned for tiling when requested by DRI2 GetBuffers.
    
    This saves massive quantities of memory on pre-965 since the DRI2 tiling
    enable caused the minimum size of any pixmap to be 1MB.

-- 
Eric Anholt
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com


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