Re: Backing store and CPU cache [was: how to write snappy benchmark?]

Torgeir Veimo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Alan Cox wrote:
>>How do you keep backing store from killing your CPU cache?  Or is that
>>not an issue?
> 
> 
> Make sure your server can keep it on the video card and/or implements
> DMA driven put image

Macos X does this and also uses compression for content stored in 
off-videocard memory, using RLE compression.

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-Torgeir
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