powerd broken

[Robert Noland]

On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 15:10 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 10:26 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> >> Robert Noland wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 16:53 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> >>>> Robert Noland wrote:
> >>>>> I've been working on the Intel vblank / irq issues.  Every time I commit
> >>>>> something thinking that I have it resolved, it isn't.  So I'm waiting on
> >>>>> hardware to arrive that will let me test this all more thoroughly.  I do
> >>>>> have a patch that I think fixes most of the issues on Intel, but the ddx
> >>>>> driver is still doing some silly things that cause issues in some cases.
> >>>>> I *think* the only outstanding issue I have with Intel is if something
> >>>>> is rendering (synced to vblank or not) when the display goes into dpms
> >>>>> sleep, there isn't anything to block that app, so it renders as hard as
> >>>>> it can even though it isn't being displayed.  In reality, this probably
> >>>>> isn't a huge issue, but running gears while the display is asleep keeps
> >>>>> the cpu at 100%, which isn't ideal.  Normal apps that aren't trying to
> >>>>> draw as fast as they can, shouldn't cause an issue.
> >>>> With the latest drm, the IRQ craziness is gone. However, the crappy
> >>>> performance remains. 2 months ago a RELENG_7 with all packages
> >>>> up to date yielded 124fps in a q3 timedemo that now yields 80fps.
> >>> Things are still not quite right with the Intel driver.  But performance
> >>> regressions are reported across Linux as well.  A little of this might
> >>> be us, but most of it is Intel...
> >>>
> >> I don't know what you did with the last update, but performance is now
> >> better than ever (2% above what it used to be), which equels 3-4 more
> >> frames in ioQuake3 or 200  more in glxgears.
> >>
> >> The uptime of the notebook is now 15 hours and the interrupt load
> >> insignificant. I get no more than 8000 interrupts per seconds.
> >> 4000 of these are CPU timers (2000 for each core) and 1000 more are
> >> from my mouse, when I move it very fast. Around 2500 from vgapci, when
> >> I run glxgears and the rest is just scraps of whatever else is running
> >> (e.g. sound).
> > 
> > Which update, what?  I haven't touched the kernel tree in a while, just
> > trying to sort it all out with patches here and there.  Are you saying
> > the the 2.7.0 intel driver helped?  Or maybe the Xserver or mesa
> > updates?
> 
> I update my ports daily, without really looking at what. I think
> xorg-server was one of them. It must have been something that happened
> during the last 48 hours.

Ok, well server, mesa and intel driver all got updates in my sweep the
other day.

robert.

> > robert.
> > 
> >> Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >> Regards
> 
-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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