From d546b67a940eb42a99f56b86c5cd8d47c8348c2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:39:12 -0700 Subject: x86: fix performance drop for glx 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 Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Cc: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c | 6 +++++- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86') diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c index 4afaba0ed722..794895c6dcc9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c @@ -137,7 +137,11 @@ static void __iomem *__ioremap(resource_size_t phys_addr, unsigned long size, switch (mode) { case IOR_MODE_UNCACHED: default: - prot = PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE; + /* + * FIXME: we will use UC MINUS for now, as video fb drivers + * depend on it. Upcoming ioremap_wc() will fix this behavior. + */ + prot = PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS; break; case IOR_MODE_CACHED: prot = PAGE_KERNEL; diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index 14e48b5a94ba..7b79f6be4e7d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -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); -- cgit v1.2.2