[PATCH 0/4] Improve reporting of resource sizes.

[Tiago Vignatti]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:23:40PM +0300, ext Rami Ylim�ki wrote:
> The motivations of this patchset is to make xrestop and X resource
> extension report resource sizes more accurately.
> 
> Currently xrestop is not taking pixmap references from extensions into
> account. X server pixmap size reporting functions are improved to
> include pixmaps referenced from render pictures and composite windows.
> 
> The server resource size functions are also abstracted so that size
> calculation functions can be wrapped or overridden by drivers. For
> example, it's useful to also report pixmaps referenced by DRI2
> buffers, but this can be only done from drivers. These patches make it
> possible to report extra pixmap references from drivers as well as
> improve the default pixmap size calculation functions.
> 
> The xrestop application is currently estimating sizes of
> non-predefined resources by constants because X resource extension
> doesn't provide a way to query the sizes from X server. We'd like to
> improve X resource extension in the near future so that the size of
> any resource could be queried. We aren't planning to implement size
> calculation for every resource. However, it'd be much better if
> xrestop could first query the size of a resource from X server and
> then fall back to estimating the size with a constant if X server
> doesn't support size calculation of that particular resource. Then the
> size calculation of most important resources, such as DRI2 drawables,
> could be implemented in X server and X restop would be able to report
> the size automatically.
> 
> Rami Ylim??ki (4):
>   dix: Provide means to report exact sizes of resources.
>   dix: Add reverse resource name lookup function to registry.
>   render: Report pixmap usage of pictures to resource extension.
>   composite: Report pixmap usage of client windows to resource
>     extension.

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Reviewed-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>

             Tiago