Intel driver - DRI profiling

[Thomas Hellström]

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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> Vedran Rodic wrote:
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>>>  The driver is, in this case, continously allocating new buffers from the
>>>  kernel to use as batch- and perhaps state buffers. Each new buffer
>>>  allocation means new pages need to be allocated and faulted in using
>>>  nopfn. This is costly.
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>> Seems obvious that it should re-use the old buffers, no?
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> Or would it be better to just allocate a bunch of buffers and keep a
> pool of them? Or do allocations of more than one buffer at a time?
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> Kevin
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I think the Intel people are heading down this path.
/Thomas

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