performance tests conducted on 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10rc

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 05:32:57PM +0000, Tim Hawkins wrote:

> Fedora 10 is significantly faster on desktop operations than intrepid,  
> given that its running virtually the same kernel (2.6.27.x), and Xorg  
> 7.4 and the same intel 915 drivers, I am at a loss to explain the  
> difference. Its not just subjective glxgears delivers 382fps on ubuntu  
> 8.10 and 560 fps on Fedora 10.  I have tried with and without  
> INTEL_BATCH=1 enabled on both.  Both have DRI enabled.

F10 has the GEM code from later upstream kernels backported, so the 
drivers are effectively quite different.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org