[Gta04-owner] graphics speed drop in 3.3 and 3.4 kernels

[Andreas Kemnade]

Hi,

On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 11:00 +0200, Radek Polak wrote:
> Hi,
> after some time on 3.3 and 3.4 kernel i installed now 3.2 kernel and i was 
> quite surprised about the graphics or maybe overall speed difference.
> 
> 3.2 kernel is much faster. You can easily check this on debian squeeze:
> 
> 	apt-get install mplayer
> 	wget http://activationrecord.net/radekp/pub/impossible_is_nothing2.mp4
With 3.2 wget gives 100KByte/s, with 2.6.32 wget gives 200-600KByte/s.
But thats another story...

> 
> 	cat > ~/.mplayer/config << __END__
> vo=fbdev2
> ao=alsa
> [default]
> afm=ffmpeg
> vfm=ffmpeg
> vf=scale=480:640
> sws=0
> __END__
> 
> 	mplayer impossible_is_nothing2.mp4
> 
> With 3.2 kernel it plays nice, with 3.3 and 3.4 i get like 1 fps.
> 
I get more. Graphics look fluent with 3.4, 3.2 and 2.6.32.

gta04:~# uname -a
Linux gta04 3.4.0-gta04+ #63 PREEMPT Mon May 28 08:42:14 CEST 2012
armv7l GNU/Linux

with the default config except the rootfs.

But what mplayer displays looks a bit crazy. The A:-Number is running
like hell, the V:-Number runs like 1 per second.
A:245075.0 V: 233.4 A-V:244841.578 ct: 23.339 5836/5836 63% 34%  5.2%
5776 0 

> So i wonder if i did some mistake or everyone has this problem. Testing 
> results and ideas are welcome.
> 
I have a GTA04A4 with the DM37xx processor, is the 3.4 only fast with
that one?

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade