[cairo] Performance problems in evince with ATI video cards

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

El vie, 10-08-2007 a las 11:52 -0400, Jeff Muizelaar escribió:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:20:52AM +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > we have recently ported evince view to cairo, since poppler renders
> > pages into a cairo surface, we avoid conversions from
> > cairo_image_surface to GdkPixbuf by directly using the cairo_surface to
> > paint the page in the evince view. However, since such port to cairo, we
> > have received some complaints about the slowness of evince and the high
> > cpu usage. It seems that the problem is only reproducible with ATI video
> > cards (although, at least, one nvidia user has reported the bug too). 
> > 
> > The problem has been reported here:
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453123
> > 
> > and it seems to be related to this one:
> > 
> > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4320
> > 
> > The problem is not reproducible for me and I even don't know where the
> > problem actually is (cairo, xorg, ati driver, evince, ...), so it's
> > almost impossible to me fixing it.
> 
> I can't reproduce it either and I'm using the open source ati driver on
> a r200. A sysprof or oprofile profile would probably help alot in
> identifying the cause.

I finally managed to reproduce it by using the nv driver, so it's not
ATI specific. Here is the sysprof log:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~carlosgc/evince-sysprof.log

It seems that XAAComposite in xorg is consuming most of the time. 

I hope it helps . . .

> -Jeff
> 

Thanks, 
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
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