A question about "Software rendering for gnome-shell"

[mwesten]

On 02/23/2012 02:43 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:54 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
>
>>> For comparison:
>>>
>>> 3,2GHz Pentium 4 (HT Disabled) / Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV370 / 1680x1050
>>>
>>> Fine.  System Monitor CPU at 19%.
>>
>> That's still way higher than I'd like, but it's at least an r300g bug
>> not an llvmpipe bug.
>
> Remember that CPU usage is inherently going to be higher than usual when
> running a debug kernel. I usually find any kind of mouse movement in X
> on a debug kernel runs my CPU to 10-20%, and that's an overclocked core
> i7-2600k (!). On a release kernel, no such effect.

Understood.  I wasn't complaining about it.  It's there as something of 
baseline for the the others.  Same code, same test, comparable hardware 
(to an extent), but no soft3D.

-Mike