Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Move graphic-related coalesced MMIO flushes to affected device models

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2011-10-18 16:08, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 04:05 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2011-10-18 16:00, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> On 09/30/2011 01:31 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> This is conceptually cleaner and will allow us to drop the nographic
>>>> timer. Moreover, it will be mandatory to fully exploit future per-device
>>>> coalesced MMIO rings.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Appears to break winxp installation - the guest enters an infinite
>>> bitblt loop.  Trying to find out why.
>>
>> Hmm, maybe there are side effects in certain modes that actually
>> disallow coalescing.
>>
> 
> That's true for sure, but flushing the buffer should never be wrong.

Err, you mean we are not flushing "too often"? I was under the
impression winxp is missing our periodic flushes. Do things work again
when you do not flush at all?

Jan

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