[Bug 36596] Major 2D performance bottleneck (most noticeable with compiz)

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36596

--- Comment #11 from Michel Dänzer michel@daenzer.net 2011-05-09 07:04:50 PDT --- (In reply to comment #10)

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Really sounds like the GPU IRQ doesn't work (reliably). Do the numbers on the radeon line in /proc/interrupts still increase when the problem occurs?

Not a lot. When everything's working, moving wobbly windows involves hundreds of interrupts. When it's at 2 fps, there are only a few, at most. Possibly none.

That probably explains the slowness, as the drivers heavily rely on the IRQ for tracking GPU progress processing commands. With no interrupts coming in, things will time out all over the place.

The question now is why there are no interrupts coming in...