Damn edit limit...
I looked at my old benchmarks but take them with a grain of salt as the guys from intel wanted to optimize that some more:
- You get more speedup when ~/.cache/mesa is located on a SSD rather than a HDD.
- There's no difference between having ~/.cache/mesa on a SSD or a ramdisc (tmpfs).
- The page cache gives a large speedup no matter what media ~/.cache/mesa is on. Beware that in real-world situations the needed shaders most likely aren't in the page cache (except you restart a game after it crashed, for example).
//EDIT: Yes, that means the page cache is much faster than tmpfs... Maybe a kernel dev should look into this?
//EDIT?: I neither work for AMD nor Intel.
I looked at my old benchmarks but take them with a grain of salt as the guys from intel wanted to optimize that some more:
- You get more speedup when ~/.cache/mesa is located on a SSD rather than a HDD.
- There's no difference between having ~/.cache/mesa on a SSD or a ramdisc (tmpfs).
- The page cache gives a large speedup no matter what media ~/.cache/mesa is on. Beware that in real-world situations the needed shaders most likely aren't in the page cache (except you restart a game after it crashed, for example).
//EDIT: Yes, that means the page cache is much faster than tmpfs... Maybe a kernel dev should look into this?
//EDIT?: I neither work for AMD nor Intel.
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