[PATCH v2 4/5] DRI2: Expose API to set drawable swap limit.

[Francisco Jerez]

Pauli Nieminen <ext-pauli.nieminen at nokia.com> writes:

> This allows ddx to set swap_limit if there is more than one back
> buffer for drawable. Setting swap_limit has to also check if change
> affects a client that is blocked.
>
> This can be used to implement N-buffering in driver with minimal
> logic in allocation and selecting next back.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pauli Nieminen <ext-pauli.nieminen at nokia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
>
What's the status of this? It's been almost a year now that this change
was sent for review and it hasn't gone in yet. Nouveau would *really*
like this interface to keep doing our N-buffering without the current
hack.

Just in case it helps to have more RBs to get this patch in:

Reviewed-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez at riseup.net>

> ---
> hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2.h |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2.c b/hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2.c
> index ecb4a4e..255fed0 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2.c
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2.c
> @@ -191,6 +191,29 @@ DRI2AllocateDrawable(DrawablePtr pDraw)
>      return pPriv;
>  }
>  
> +Bool
> +DRI2SwapLimit(DrawablePtr pDraw, int swap_limit)
> +{
> +    DRI2DrawablePtr pPriv = DRI2GetDrawable(pDraw);
> +    if (!pPriv)
> +	return FALSE;
> +
> +    pPriv->swap_limit = swap_limit;
> +
> +    /* Check throttling */
> +    if (pPriv->swapsPending >= pPriv->swap_limit)
> +	return TRUE;
> +
> +    if (pPriv->target_sbc == -1 && !pPriv->blockedOnMsc) {
> +	if (pPriv->blockedClient) {
> +	    AttendClient(pPriv->blockedClient);
> +	    pPriv->blockedClient = NULL;
> +	}
> +    }
> +
> +    return TRUE;
> +}
> +
>  typedef struct DRI2DrawableRefRec {
>      XID		  id;
>      XID		  dri2_id;
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2.h b/hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2.h
> index 531d801..3d01c55 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2.h
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2.h
> @@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ extern _X_EXPORT DRI2BufferPtr *DRI2GetBuffersWithFormat(DrawablePtr pDraw,
>  	int *out_count);
>  
>  extern _X_EXPORT void DRI2SwapInterval(DrawablePtr pDrawable, int interval);
> +extern _X_EXPORT Bool DRI2SwapLimit(DrawablePtr pDraw, int swap_limit);
>  extern _X_EXPORT int DRI2SwapBuffers(ClientPtr client, DrawablePtr pDrawable,
>  				     CARD64 target_msc, CARD64 divisor,
>  				     CARD64 remainder, CARD64 *swap_target,
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