efifb: Enable write-combining
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>
Thu, 26 May 2011 14:13:31 +0000 (10:13 -0400)
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Thu, 2 Jun 2011 08:18:04 +0000 (17:18 +0900)
commit3c004b4f7eab239e726c6dde0f6cfca46a96956b
tree91992251a5ff8967159fcfd7802732e14369d9de
parent0057f1809d44b26765ec2374e0107a2f8ab256f5
efifb: Enable write-combining

Running fbcon on an uncached framebuffer is remarkably slow.  So try
to enable write combining in efifb.

Without this patch, it takes 5.8 seconds from efifb probe to i915
probe (default options; no plymouth or quiet mode).  With this patch,
it only takes 1.7 seconds.  That means we wasted over 4 seconds just
writing to UC memory.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
drivers/video/efifb.c