Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:46:55 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Reading from /dev/fb0 very slow? |
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Hi!
> > I did some benchmarks, and my framebuffer is *way* faster when writing > > than when reading: > > That is quite normal.
Unfortunately, at least X and few framebuffer modes can not survive that too well.
vesafb ypan mode attempts to do video-to-video copy, which is slow. Xserver attempts that, too.
> > That is 6 times slower! This is also very visible in X, where moving > > regions is expensive, while just drawing regions is fast. For example > > gnome-terminal is *way* faster *with* transparent background option. > > > > Any idea why such assymetry? [This is toshiba 4030cdt with vesafb and > > 2.4.5] > > Writes to a PCI device can be queued or posted. Reads from a PCI device for > obvious reasons have to stall the CPU until the data returns.
But they can't be posted indifinitely, right? I'm copying whole framebuffer at a time, I do not believe PCI has enough buffers to cache *that*. [Or is it using some kind of burst mode it can not use for reading? That does not give a sense, you can cache reads, too....]
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