[PATCH 2/2] exa/mixed: Exclude frontbuffer from deferred pixmap handling.

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Fri Dec 10 01:01:21 PST 2010


On Don, 2010-12-09 at 21:17 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote: 
> - Apps like xterm can trigger a lot of fallback rendering.
> - This can lead to (annoyingly) high latencies, because you
>   have to wait for the block handler.

Doesn't this decrease throughput of the xterm output though due to the
higher migration overhead?

Do you have a simple recipe for reproducing high latencies?


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