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x86: fix performance drop for glx

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fix the 3D performance drop reported at:

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10328

fb drivers are using ioremap()/ioremap_nocache(), followed by mtrr_add with
WC attribute. Recent changes in page attribute code made both
ioremap()/ioremap_nocache() mappings as UC (instead of previous UC-). This
breaks the graphics performance, as the effective memory type is UC instead
of expected WC.

The correct way to fix this is to add ioremap_wc() (which uses UC- in the
absence of PAT kernel support and WC with PAT) and change all the
fb drivers to use this new ioremap_wc() API.

We can take this correct and longer route for post 2.6.25. For now,
revert back to the UC- behavior for ioremap/ioremap_nocache.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Suresh Siddha
2008-03-25 17:39:12 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 76c324182b
commit d546b67a94
3 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
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@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ static inline int change_page_attr_clear(unsigned long addr, int numpages,
int set_memory_uc(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
{
return change_page_attr_set(addr, numpages,
__pgprot(_PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT));
__pgprot(_PAGE_PCD));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_memory_uc);