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    EXA much slower than XAA on r300

    My configuration is as follows:
    • Duron Applebred 1800 MHz
    • 1024MB DDR333
    • Radeon 9600 Pro (Sapphire)

    I am using latest radeon git version, I have enabled EXA, AccelDFS and all other performance options for this driver, yet it lags like hell when scrolling in browser, compositing is unusable, and glxgears drop to 1080 from 2240 on XAA.
    My screen res is 1280x1024, DRI is, of course, functional, generally all Xorg related things are in order.
    I have added MigrationHeuristic "greedy" to driver options in xorg.conf, which gave a minor improvement.
    Did I miss something? Or is it like that for everyone else?
    Last edited by ferreira; 04 April 2008, 07:13 AM.
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  • #2
    Nope, that is not normal.

    Post up Xorg.0.log, xorg.conf and LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo

    Something's gotta be up!

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    • #3
      I'm using xf86-video-ati latest git and Xserver 1.4.0.90.

      I found that XAA and EXA with "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" are roughly equal on gtkperf. Without "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy", EXA is slower on gtkperf, but much faster on xrenderbench.

      Also, some of the benchmarks are a bit strange, with EXA render accel, I got about:

      x11perf -aa10text 15000/sec
      x11perf -aa24text 175000/sec

      But EXA render accel was perfectly usable. I don't run any compositing managers.

      However, with EXA, I set "FBTexPercent" "80" since I need more graphics ram allocated to OpenGL textures to play extreme tuxracer 0.4 with my 128MB radeon 9550.

      I think EXA may only be working well with the later Xservers, with EXA I experienced minor incorrect rendering in seamonkey until I upgraded to 1.4.0.90.

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      • #4
        Xorg.0.log
        http://wklej.org/id/5090bd1635
        xorg.conf
        http://www.wklej.org/id/cde256911f
        LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
        libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.3.0 r300 (screen 0)
        libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
        drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
        drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
        drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
        drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
        drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
        drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
        drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
        http://http://www.wklej.org/id/80deba876d

        Here you are.
        Last edited by ferreira; 04 April 2008, 09:30 AM.

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        • #5
          You don't need the section "Extensions" in your xorg.conf, they are all on by default.

          I would test the xrender acceleration with http://people.freedesktop.org/~zack/...chmark.tar.bz2 (needs QT4).

          My setup:
          P4 Northwood 2.0GHz
          512MB DDR266
          Radeon 9550SE 128MB

          Scores with "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" (same as without render accel)
          http://pastebin.ca/971259


          Scores with EXA render accel
          http://pastebin.ca/971260


          Edit: changed to pastebin which doesn't expire in 24 hours
          Last edited by ejs1920; 04 April 2008, 12:42 PM.

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          • #6
            It would help if you gave us your Xorg log with EXA acceleration (and AccelDFS) turned on. For reference I run compiz and an X800 XTPE and I didn't break 0.7s on any single benchmark.

            You can get it to work... you just need to figure out what is wrong.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by NaterGator View Post
              It would help if you gave us your Xorg log with EXA acceleration (and AccelDFS) turned on. For reference I run compiz and an X800 XTPE and I didn't break 0.7s on any single benchmark.

              You can get it to work... you just need to figure out what is wrong.
              As requested:
              modified xorg.conf:
              http://www.wklej.org/id/1a350977d2
              Xorg.0.log after changes:
              http://www.wklej.org/id/9c0f569fae

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              • #8
                *BUMP*
                Anyone has an idea for what is happening or am I left alone with the problem?

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                • #9
                  You could try adding "Virtual 1280 1024" lines above your "Modes" lines, to reduce the maximum desktop size, and save a very small amount of memory.

                  Also try with "RenderAccel" "false" to see if the problem is with the new r300 render accel code or somewhere else.

                  Edit: You could also try commenting out Load "xtrap" if you don't need the XTrap extension.
                  Last edited by ejs1920; 08 April 2008, 07:25 AM.

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                  • #10
                    Hey. I have the same Radeon 9600 videocard with an AMD64 Athlon 3200+ and experience the same problem.

                    EXA is unbearably slow, especially with scrolling in webpages. I asked in IRC and was told to add AccelDFS and all that gear. So, I did. No change. I'm still crawling in EXA and flying in XAA.

                    Maybe just our videocard? Not sure.

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