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Eric Anholt 98830d91da drm/vc4: Add T-format scanout support.
The T tiling format is what V3D uses for textures, with no raster
support at all until later revisions of the hardware (and always at a
large 3D performance penalty).  If we can't scan out V3D's format,
then we often need to do a relayout at some stage of the pipeline,
either right before texturing from the scanout buffer (common in X11
without a compositor) or between a tiled screen buffer right before
scanout (an option I've considered in trying to resolve this
inconsistency, but which means needing to use the dirty fb ioctl and
having some update policy).

T-format scanout lets us avoid either of those shadow copies, for a
massive, obvious performance improvement to X11 window dragging
without a compositor.  Unfortunately, enabling a compositor to work
around the discrepancy has turned out to be too costly in memory
consumption for the Raspbian distribution.

Because the HVS operates a scanline at a time, compositing from T does
increase the memory bandwidth cost of scanout.  On my 1920x1080@32bpp
display on a RPi3, we go from about 15% of system memory bandwidth
with linear to about 20% with tiled.  However, for X11 this still ends
up being a huge performance win in active usage.

This patch doesn't yet handle src_x/src_y offsetting within the tiled
buffer.  However, we fail to do so for untiled buffers already.

Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170608001336.12842-1-eric@anholt.net
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
2017-06-15 16:02:45 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'for-linus-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2017-05-13 10:20:02 -07:00
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crypto treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
Documentation dt-bindings: Add support for samsung s6e3hf2 panel 2017-06-14 20:16:20 +02:00
drivers drm/vc4: Add T-format scanout support. 2017-06-15 16:02:45 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs This pull request contains updates for both UBI and UBIFS: 2017-05-13 10:23:12 -07:00
include drm/vc4: Add T-format scanout support. 2017-06-15 16:02:45 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.