[PATCH] Allocate Xv buffers to GTT.

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 13:40 +0200, Pauli Nieminen wrote: 
> KMS doesn't have acceleration for upload to vram. memcpy/memmove to VRAM
> directly is very slow (40M/s in benchmark) which causes visible problems
> to video.
> 
> Allocating video buffer in GTT will give good performance (350-450M/s)
> for memmove operation. This is nice performance boost for Xv under KMS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pauli Nieminen <suokkos at gmail.com>

I've pushed this patch (with a followup change to allocate the 'video
offscreen' and 'TV-in' BOs in VRAM) and the memcpy patch (with
whitespace fixed up - please be more careful wrt this in the future).

Thanks!


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