[Bug 23085] Radeon KMS: XGetImage very slow, as is Firefox scrolling

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23085





--- Comment #4 from Joel Feiner <jafeiner at gmail.com>  2009-08-02 09:20:41 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> If Firefox (or any other app, for that matter) uses XGetImage for scrolling,
> it's broken and needs to be fixed.
> 

I've heard that Firefox uses XGetImage when rendering "native" widgets, i.e.,
that it renders the widgets using the native GTK+ libraries and then uses
XGetImage to grab the rendered widget and then uses that image to actually draw
the widgets.  That's why I thought there might be some relationship between
scrolling (pages have widgets) and XGetImage.

> The problem could indeed be due to software fallbacks though. It could really
> be interesting to see profiles obtained with sysprof or oprofile. Please stick
> to a single operation as much as possible during any profile run.
> 

I attached two oprofile reports and unlike last time I tried to file a bug
report, they actually look valid.

Note that I rebuilt my X stack from Git this morning (latest master) and the
kernel code is also up to date, using this Git URL:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git (if you
need a reference point).  The reports include line numbers so I thought that
information might be useful.

> You could also try enabling the fallback debugging code in xserver/exa or the
> driver and see if antything sticks out. But note that some of those debugging
> messages can be red herrings without backing analysis, don't jump to
> conclusions.
> 

I'll attach my Xorg.0.log with the fallback enabled (have to restart X server
for that...)


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