Messages in this thread | | | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | __i915_spin_request() sucks | Date | Thu, 12 Nov 2015 13:36:32 -0700 |
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Hi,
So a few months ago I got an XPS13 laptop, the one with the high res screen. GUI performance was never really that great, I attributed it to coming from a more powerful laptop, and the i915 driving a lot of pixels. But yesterday I browsed from my wife's macbook, and was blown away. Wow, scrolling in chrome SUCKS on the xps13. Not just scrolling, basically anything in chrome. Molasses. So I got sick of it, fired up a quick perf record, did a bunch of stuff in chrome. No super smoking guns, but one thing did stick out - the path leading to __i915_spin_request().
So today, I figured I'd try just killing that spin. If it fails, we'll punt to normal completions, so easy change. And wow, MASSIVE difference. I can now scroll in chrome and not rage! It's like the laptop is 10x faster now.
Ran git blame, and found:
commit 2def4ad99befa25775dd2f714fdd4d92faec6e34 Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Date: Tue Apr 7 16:20:41 2015 +0100
drm/i915: Optimistically spin for the request completion
and read the commit message. Doesn't sound that impressive. Especially not for something that screws up interactive performance by a LOT.
What's the deal? Revert?
-- Jens Axboe
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