Hi Alex,

Thanks for the fast reply. I checked again the patches... I have chosen the ones from people.d.o.

Kind Regards, - Sedat -

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Alex Deucher alexdeucher@gmail.com wrote:

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Sedat Dilek sedat.dilek@googlemail.com wrote:

...

Hi,

today, I started with testing "DRM Vblank timestamping patches. 1st Try." from Mario in combination with "radeon pageflipping patches" from Alex together in a non-BKL config Kernel-setup.

First some words to my system and hardware:

• It's a Debian/sid i386 host with latest dist-upgrades as of today.
• My radeon gfxcard is a RV250.

[ Linux-kernel ]

• Base is a 2.6.36 vanilla Linux-kernel tarball
• on top linux-next (next-20101026) with some extra-patches to be able

to build a BKL-free Kernel (Thanks Arnd)

• on top drm-radeon-testing (up to commit 881fe6c: "drm/radeon/kms:

properly compute group_size on 6xx/7xx")

• Mario's vblank timestamp caching patches (Rev 1 10.10.2010) with

some patches to fit linux-next/drm-radeon-testing

• Alex's radeon-KMS pageflipping patches for Kernel
• For full patch-series see below

NOTE: My Linux-kernel has one speciality: It is BigKerneLock-free !

[ DDX (xf66-video-ati) ]

• xf86-video-ati from GIT master (up to commit df92245: "r100: add

some missing bits in SE_COORD_FMT")

• on top Alex's radeon-KMS pageflipping patch for DDX

NOTE from Alex in [2]: "6xx/7xx/evergreen are pretty solid, but r1xx-r5xx still need some work."

Thanks for testing! Please make sure you try the latest pageflipping patches I posted last night: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-October/005042.html I've also updated put the latest patches here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/pflip/ They work much better on r1xx-r5xx asics.

Alex

...

[ Mesa3D ]

• it is from GIT master (up to commit 547e761: "egl_dri2: Fix a typo

that make glFlush be called at wrong time.")

[ LibDRM ]

• 2.4.22-1 from Debian/experimental

[ Xorg-server ]

• 2:1.9.0.902-1 from Debian/experimental

So, how we know Mario made us happy (BTW, greetings from TUE to TUE)?

[ dmesg ] [    8.195646] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010). <--- Driver-date could be changed into more human-readable "10-Oct-2010"?

What about the fun Alex gives us?

[ /var/log/Xorg.0.log ] [  1797.204] (II) RADEON(0): KMS Pageflipping: enabled

INFO: I have attached the full dmesg and a Xorg.log (with logs after having started Eric Anholt's OpenArena benchmark).

Above mentionned OA-benchmark drops fps from ~18 down to 13 (new Kernel + new DDX). I have not tested battery performance.

My notebook's LVDS has a 1400x1050 resolution, OA was run @1024x768. Can you enlighten a bit on the other mesages in X log?

[ /var/log/Xorg.0.log ] ... [  2069.700] (II) RADEON(0): Allocate new frame buffer 1024x768 stride 1024 <---- Start OpenArena benchmark [  2069.700] (II) RADEON(0): VRAM usage limit set to 50788K [  2072.150] (II) RADEON(0): radeon_dri2_schedule_flip:571 fevent[0x849e988] [  2072.160] (II) RADEON(0): radeon_dri2_flip_event_handler:927 fevent[0x849e988] width 1024 pitch 4096 (/4 1024) [  2072.178] (II) RADEON(0): radeon_dri2_schedule_flip:571 fevent[0x8c83298] ... [  2082.364] (II) RADEON(0): Allocate new frame buffer 1400x1056 stride 1408 <--- Switch back to native resolution (end of benchmark) [  2082.364] (II) RADEON(0): VRAM usage limit set to 48326K ...

Hope, this feedback is helpful and encourages the diverse involved developers to continue their work. Have fun!

Kind Regards,

• Sedat -

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-October/005009.html [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-October/005036.html [3] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl.git;a=summary [4] http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/pflip/

[ setup_linux-next_next-20101026.1.log ] ... --> Try to apply base.  (+) OK   linux-next/patch-v2.6.36-next-20101026  (+) OK   linux-next/0001-Remove-localversion-next.patch  (+) OK   for-linux-next/fs-remove-BKL-from-FILE_LOCKING-v2.patch  (+) OK   for-linux-next/drm-i810-remove-SMP-support-and-BKL.patch  (+) OK   drm-radeon-testing/drm-radeon-testing.patch  (+) OK   drm-vblank-timestamping/1-3-drm-vblank-Add-support-for-precise-vblank-timestamping.patch  (+) OK   drm-vblank-timestamping/2-3-kms-radeon-Add-support-for-precise-vblank-timestamping.patch  (+) OK   drm-vblank-timestamping/drm-i915-fix-assignment-obj_priv-to_intel_bo.patch  (+) OK   drm-vblank-timestamping/3-3-kms-i915-Add-support-for-precise-vblank-timestamping.patch  (+) OK   drm-vblank-timestamping/drm-i915-fix-error-implicit-declaration-of-function-IS_IRONLAKE.patch  (+) OK   agd5f_pflip/0001-drm-radeon-kms-add-support-for-pflip-interrupts-on-6.patch  (+) OK   agd5f_pflip/0002-drm-radeon-kms-add-pageflip-ioctl-support.patch  (+) OK   linux-kbuild/1-2-Kbuild-Treat-KBUILD_DEFCONFIG-old-as-request-to-use-.config-as-the-base.patch  (+) OK   linux-kbuild/2-2-Kbuild-kconfig-Verbose-version-of---listnewconfig-and---defconfig-v2.patch  (+) OK   x86-apic-fix/Skip-looking-for-ioapic-overrides-when-ioapics-are-not-present.patch  (+) OK   debian/version.patch  (+) OK   debian/kernelvariables.patch  (+) OK   debian/doc-build-parallel.patch  (+) OK   debian/piix-disable-redundant-devids.patch  (+) OK   bugfix/ia64/hardcode-arch-script-output.patch  (+) OK   bugfix/mips/disable-advansys.patch  (+) OK   bugfix/arm/disable-scsi_acard.patch  (+) OK   debian/mips-disable-werror.patch  (+) OK   bugfix/powerpc/lpar-console.patch  (+) OK   features/all/i915-autoload-without-CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS.patch  (+) OK   debian/sysrq-mask.patch  (+) OK   debian/arch-sh4-fix-uimage-build.patch  (+) OK   bugfix/mips/mips-ide-flush-dcache.patch --> base fully applied. ...

• EOT -