Tim Smith wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 May 2002 8:40 am, Keith Whitwell scribed numinously:"
> 
>>Tim Smith wrote:
>>
>>>I've done some more digging and it would appear to send an enormous
>>>amount of commands via radeon_cp_cmdbuf, all ending up going via
>>>radeon_emit_packet3_cliprect. Actually I don't think it's such a huge
>>>number compared to other calls (32 commands), except that this time the
>>>loop gets called with nbox=4 so it emits everything 4 times, and runs
>>>out of FIFO.
>>>
>>If it's really a fifo issue, I may have a solution for this in terms of
>>only writing the ring tail register once per ioctl.
>>
> 
> Is it in a testable state? If you mail me a patch I'll test it tonight and 
> report.
> 
> Assuming that RADEON_CP_RB_WPTR is the ring tail register, I count at least 
> 20 writes to it on this one call, and 16 on the previous "clear" (also with 
> nbox=4). And there are 13 consecutive calls to radeon_emit_packet3_cliprect 
> with nbox=4 before it locks, making a total of 260 writes from one call to 
> radeon_cp_cmdbuf.

It's committed on the tcl branch now (it's also a minor optimization).

Keith



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