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Bruce Evans 1fa5142093 Use a shadow buffer and never read from the frame buffer. Remove large slow
code for reading from the frame buffer.

Reading from the frame buffer is usually much slower than writing to
the frame buffer.  Typically 10 to 100 times slower.  It old modes,
it takes many more PIOs, and in newer modes with no PIOs writes are
often write-combined while reads remain uncached.

Reading from the frame buffer is not very common, so this change doesn't
give speedups of 10 to 100 times.  My main test case is a floodfill()
function that reads about as many pixels as it writes.  The speedups
are typically a factor of 2 to 4.

Duplicating writes to the shadow buffer is slower when no reads from the
frame buffer are done, but reads are often done for the pixels under the
mouse cursor, and doing these reads from the shadow buffer more than
compensates for the overhead of writing the shadow buffer in at least the
slower modes.  Management of the mouse cursor also becomes simpler.

The shadow buffer doesn't take any extra memory, except twice as much
in old 4-plane modes.  A buffer for holding a copy of the frame buffer
was allocated up front for use in the screen switching signal handler.
This wasn't changed when the handler was made async-signal safe.  Use
the same buffer the shadow (but make it twice as large in the 4-plane
modes), and remove large special code for writing it as well as large
special code for reading ut.  It used to have a rawer format in the
4-plane modes.  Now it has a bitmap format which takes twice as much
memory but can be written almost as fast without special code.

VIDBUFs that are not the whole frame buffer were never supported, and the
change depends on this.  Check for invalid VIDBUFs in some places and do
nothing.  The removed code did something not so good.
2019-04-21 16:17:35 +00:00
bin .Xr trim(8) from dd(1). 2019-03-26 15:44:06 +00:00
cddl Drop -g from CFLAGS for zfsd(8). No idea why it was ever there. 2019-04-16 12:25:15 +00:00
contrib MFV r346450: 2019-04-20 23:18:19 +00:00
crypto Add workaround for a QoS-related bug in VMWare Workstation. 2019-03-27 15:17:29 +00:00
etc Compile and install most of the googletest examples 2019-03-11 19:50:44 +00:00
gnu Fix gdb/kgdb build under WITH_PIE 2019-04-01 19:19:51 +00:00
include Introduce funlinkat syscall that always us to check if we are removing 2019-04-06 09:34:26 +00:00
kerberos5 Add WITH_PIE knob to build Position Independent Executables 2019-02-15 22:22:38 +00:00
lib Use a shadow buffer and never read from the frame buffer. Remove large slow 2019-04-21 16:17:35 +00:00
libexec Fix order of destructors between main binary and libraries. 2019-04-15 13:03:09 +00:00
release Add support for cross-building cloudware images. 2019-04-03 21:54:47 +00:00
rescue rescue: set NO_SHARED in Makefile 2018-11-19 22:18:18 +00:00
sbin pfctl: Fix ifgroup check 2019-04-19 10:52:54 +00:00
secure Add workaround for a QoS-related bug in VMWare Workstation. 2019-03-27 15:17:29 +00:00
share psm(4): respect tap_disabled configuration with enabled Extended support 2019-04-20 21:04:56 +00:00
stand Start to reduce the number of #ifdef EFI_ZFS_BOOT 2019-04-20 05:31:56 +00:00
sys [ath] [ath_hal] [ath_hal_9300] Extend the start PCU receive to handle resetting ANI. 2019-04-21 02:36:01 +00:00
targets retire LINKER_FEATURES filter flag 2018-11-12 20:44:22 +00:00
tests Revert r346443 2019-04-20 16:37:28 +00:00
tools As an interim measure until a more permanent solution is implemented 2019-04-18 01:02:00 +00:00
usr.bin dtc(1): Pull in fix for segfault-upon-error condition 2019-04-21 01:58:42 +00:00
usr.sbin cron(8): schedule interval jobs that get loaded during execution 2019-04-20 02:54:20 +00:00
.arcconfig
.arclint
.cirrus.yml Cirrus-CI: pass OVMF env var to test script for upcoming changes 2019-04-11 13:01:26 +00:00
.gitattributes MK_ZFS -> {MK_ZFS|MK_LOADER_ZFS}, this is so we can diable userland / kernel 2019-01-05 22:45:20 +00:00
.gitignore Ignore _.universe-toolchain file. 2018-07-01 13:50:37 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Happy New Year 2019! 2019-01-01 00:25:25 +00:00
LOCKS
MAINTAINERS Add note that I'm the defacto maintainer of libegacy, our 2019-04-18 15:19:28 +00:00
Makefile import zstd 1.4.0 2019-04-19 00:31:04 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 pkgbase: Use uname as ABI_FILE 2019-03-27 17:55:39 +00:00
Makefile.libcompat Use ...-freebsd13.0 in -target strings. 2018-11-12 16:55:20 +00:00
Makefile.sys.inc
ObsoleteFiles.inc Set tentative merge date, and bump __FreeBSD_version. 2019-03-04 19:23:11 +00:00
README README: add generic notes about GENERIC and NOTES 2018-06-17 19:44:24 +00:00
README.md import zstd 1.4.0 2019-04-19 00:31:04 +00:00
UPDATING random(4): Restore availability tradeoff prior to r346250 2019-04-18 20:48:54 +00:00

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