Yesterday, "zander" from nvidia posted a series of patches to the kernel that improve performance for nvidia's driver. They are at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46676 (couldn't find this already in bugzilla. Apologies if it's a dupe) W Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
hmmm, it seems that all of these patches are already included in portage :) bug could be closed.
closing...