Brad Smith [[email protected]] wrote: > On 12/07/14 3:46 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > >Kevin Chadwick [[email protected]] wrote: > >> > >>I'm guessing this is due to the new KMS 3d support not being as fast > >>right now but much better than you had before. > >> > > > >It also affects Thunderbird. Here's my synopsis of Mark Kettenis's > >analysis: > > The quoted text from Kevin is out of context. >
Typical of me :) > > The video playback issues are more to do with the relatively poor MP / > pthreads performance on OpenBSD. > I think these issues are being addressed. In -current, tedu's work to lower contention by adding lock/unlocks to critical paths in the kernel has made a huge difference for me. I even backported much of it to older kernels on machines that I don't plan on upgrading past time_t (will just replace them instead). It was that impressive. I think other people are seeing serious improvements in video playback, too. Such as: https://twitter.com/mlarkin2012/status/482083457858666496/photo/1
