linux-sg2042/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/performance

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Speed
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CyBlaFB is much faster than tridentfb and vesafb. Compare the performance data
for mode 1280x1024-[8,16,32]@61 Hz.
Test 1: Cat a file with 2000 lines of 0 characters.
Test 2: Cat a file with 2000 lines of 80 characters.
Test 3: Cat a file with 2000 lines of 160 characters.
All values show system time use in seconds, kernel 2.6.12 was used for
the measurements. 2.6.13 is a bit slower, 2.6.14 hopefully will include a
patch that speeds up kernel bitblitting a lot ( > 20%).
+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| | not accelerated |
| TRIDENTFB +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| of 2.6.12 | 8 bpp | 16 bpp | 32 bpp |
| | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan |
+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Test 1 | 4.31 | 4.33 | 6.05 | 12.81 | ---- | ---- |
| Test 2 | 67.94 | 5.44 | 123.16 | 14.79 | ---- | ---- |
| Test 3 | 131.36 | 6.55 | 240.12 | 16.76 | ---- | ---- |
+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Comments | | | completely bro- |
| | | | ken, monitor |
| | | | switches off |
+-----------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| | accelerated |
| TRIDENTFB +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| of 2.6.12 | 8 bpp | 16 bpp | 32 bpp |
| | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan |
+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Test 1 | ---- | ---- | 20.62 | 1.22 | ---- | ---- |
| Test 2 | ---- | ---- | 22.61 | 3.19 | ---- | ---- |
| Test 3 | ---- | ---- | 24.59 | 5.16 | ---- | ---- |
+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Comments | broken, writing | broken, ok only | completely bro- |
| | to wrong places | if bgcolor is | ken, monitor |
| | on screen + bug | black, bug in | switches off |
| | in fillrect() | fillrect() | |
+-----------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| | not accelerated |
| VESAFB +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| of 2.6.12 | 8 bpp | 16 bpp | 32 bpp |
| | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan |
+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Test 1 | 4.26 | 3.76 | 5.99 | 7.23 | ---- | ---- |
| Test 2 | 65.65 | 4.89 | 120.88 | 9.08 | ---- | ---- |
| Test 3 | 126.91 | 5.94 | 235.77 | 11.03 | ---- | ---- |
+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Comments | vga=0x307 | vga=0x31a | vga=0x31b not |
| | fh=80kHz | fh=80kHz | supported by |
| | fv=75kHz | fv=75kHz | video BIOS and |
| | | | hardware |
+-----------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| | accelerated |
| CYBLAFB +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| | 8 bpp | 16 bpp | 32 bpp |
| | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan |
+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Test 1 | 8.02 | 0.23 | 19.04 | 0.61 | 57.12 | 2.74 |
| Test 2 | 8.38 | 0.55 | 19.39 | 0.92 | 57.54 | 3.13 |
| Test 3 | 8.73 | 0.86 | 19.74 | 1.24 | 57.95 | 3.51 |
+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
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+-----------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+