Bug 15431

Summary: MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer.
Product: Drivers Reporter: Artem S. Tashkinov (aros)
Component: Video(DRI - Intel)Assignee: drivers_video-dri-intel (drivers_video-dri-intel)
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX    
Severity: blocking CC: jbarnes
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.34 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: Hardware and software info

Description Artem S. Tashkinov 2010-03-03 01:31:20 UTC
Created attachment 25331 [details]
 Hardware and software info

Intel Graphics HD video adapter doesn't perform well in OpenGL mode probably due to this error.

I have Intel Core i5 650 CPU, 4GB of RAM and Intel H55 based motherboard.

Some relevant hardware software/information is attached.
Comment 1 Artem S. Tashkinov 2010-03-03 10:45:06 UTC
I have enabled these options in the kernel and this error message is now gone:

CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER=y
CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=1
CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT=1

Unfortunately OpenGL performance is still unsatisfactory:

[birdie@localhost ~]$ glxgears
4044 frames in 5.0 seconds = 808.746 FPS
4012 frames in 5.0 seconds = 802.318 FPS

However this issue isn't a Linux kernel concern.

Feel free to close this bug report if the aforementioned options are a must for the i915 drm functioning.
Comment 2 Jesse Barnes 2010-07-23 19:59:31 UTC
note: glxgears isn't a benchmark.  If you have performance problems with real apps you should file them at bugs.freedesktop.org.  Thanks.