Description of problem: I've noticed that acceleration of OpenGL apps is getting very slow. I've checked couple settings & different kernels and I'm unable to pass 560fps in glxgears which is of course no benchmark but gives at least some numbers. debug vanilla kernel 2.6.26-rc - ~500fps (current fedora rawhide kernel is even slower is it uses even more debug config options) fast vanilla kernel (no debugs) 2.6.26-rc - ~560fps vesa driver and default glxgears window size 720fps (though vesa gets noticeable slower when the window is resized) I know that 1.4.1 is able to achieve 1080fps on the same hw and F8 gives still pretty nice 800fps without any tunning. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-24.fc9.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.902-3.20080612.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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Created attachment 311241 [details] Log from Xorg server without any xorg.conf This log is from the Xorg server running without any configuration file - and as this also give the same 'speed' result I guess it's enough. I'd like to note, that even plain Xorg :0 -ac without any other fancy tool - just glxgears - gives the same speed.
Ok - I've additional information about this problem: It looks like glxgears are 'slow' so they will not make a significant load on CPU - thus my ondemand CPU governor actually doesn't increase CPU speed. This explains why I've seen several times higher numbers with glxgears - happend with CPU load caused by ff3... So with 'perfomance' cpu governor - and my debug kernel I get ~630FPS - (this shows, that there might be some problem with data exchange between CPU & GPU and both are waitting for each other. This gives estimated 760fps with non-debug fullspeed kernel - which is still slower than F8. Those >1000fps were achieved with slightly faster C2D 2.4GHz - mine is just 2.2GHz - and with current Xorg head that machine achieves just 900fps. So there is certainly a MESA problem most probably as well.
For me to be able to still use ondemand governor while having better gears speed, I have done this: echo 30>/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold This seems to push CPU into faster Cx state under smaller load and makes glxgears to archive maximal speed.
So, OK, let's blame mesa.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 444328 ***