[Dri-users] Re: [Dri-devel] mga worklog 20010205

[Paul H. <fr...@ci...>]

Gareth Hughes wrote:

> - Remove grab-lock-on-wakeup feature.  Only lock when we actually want
> to do anything...  More work on this to come.  Yes Dave, this should
> make you happy :-)
> 
> - Finished off new DMA buffer ageing scheme.  Results re: new DMA code
> kind of speak for themselves:
> 
> 				 trunk		mga-1-0-0
> 
> Mesa/demos/texcyl:		1393 fps	2368 fps
> 
> After reading the docs and working out how the card likes to be
> programmed, we only take a single interrupt when the primary DMA ring
> buffer wraps around.  This is pretty fast as we no longer need a bottom
> half for the interrupt handler, as all it needs to do is refresh the DMA
> start and end addresses (they are disabled while the interrupt is
> pending).
> 
> TODO:
> 
> - Texturing sometimes works, need to verify new texture upload code.
> - Hook up indexed vertex buffers so we can play Quake...
> 
> -- Gareth

Tralalla this sounds cool :)
Can you give an estimation on how that bench translates to for instance 
Quake3 fps ?