[PATCH] exa/mixed: Partially restore deferred pixmap handling for frontbuffer.

[Maarten Maathuis]

2011/2/11 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> On Don, 2011-02-10 at 20:44 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
>> 2011/2/10 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
>> > On Don, 2011-02-10 at 20:15 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
>> >> - It turns out that part of the problem was actually on the driver side.
>> >> - The performance loss is not worth the small visual improvement.
>> >> - This should ensure low latency at low throughput.
>> >> - Performance loss seems about 5% instead of the previous 33%.
>> >
>> > As you've lowered the performance loss number again, I assume you mean
>> > 'high throughput' above. :)
>>
>> I really mean low latency at low throughput (typing for example), [...]
>
> That was always covered by the BlockHandler. Your problem was only due
> to the BlockHandler not getting called for a long time (and/or the
> driver not flushing properly in its own BlockHandler).

Even before i read this i got the idea if i shouldn't triple check if
I'm trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist anymore. So i'll do
some more testing. Maybe a revert is even in order. I made a mistake
once, i don't want to make a second one on top of that :)

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