Gnome & EXA - Any progress ?

[Marcin 'Morgoth' Kurek]

Hell[o] Dennis,

On 2005-12-22, you wrote:

> I did some oprofiling and see that X spends a lot of time in
> fbcopyareammx.  In fact when I move a window around on the desktop X
> spends virtually all  the time in that function and uses up 80% of the
> CPU. I have no clue about  the drivers in XOrg so this is just
> speculation but the function name  sounds like something the blitter on
> the card should usually perform and  not the processor. If this is a case
> of "this function is not accelerated  in this particular driver" and
> fbcopyareammx is just a fallback where would  I have to look in the
> driver sources if I wanted to add acceleration for  this? I'm talking
> about the r300 driver and now that the modularization is  complete I feel
> less intimidated by the project so I might give it a try. :) 

I think our both problems are diffrent. EXA works quite good and
cause a small lockup only when Torsmo refresh it's window and double
buffering is enabled.

Regards
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