EXA text performance regression (Re: Initial benchmark of Glucose/i965 with expedite)

[Carl Worth]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:33:00 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 14:56 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: 
> > 
> > 	http://cworth.org/glucose/i965/first_look/
> 
> Did you get a chance to profile the EXA text rendering slowness? It
> might be related to my recent changes allowing partial migration of
> pixmap contents. They save migration overhead but may introduce region
> calculation overhead in some situations. If this is confirmed to be the
> problem here, there are some possible countermeasures for the latter.

I haven't done any further profiling on this, no.

I would have liked to have done some "git bisect" work, but with the
various inter-dependent modules, (and the various API changes between
them), there's no easy way to find intermediate stages of the modules
that build together[*].

I do have the various modules tagged locally on my machine in the old
state that gave about 100k glyphs/second. As I update each to the
latest version I'll try to see if I can learn anything more about the
regression.

-Carl

[*] I'd like to explore constructing a git "supermodule" of the
various xorg git repositories that would make this easier. This would
also give us a single place to tag _everything_ for releases, and it
would also allow for things like a single branch name to describe
complex cross-module work such as glucose.
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