[PATCH 0/5] Improve Present support in Xwayland with per window flips

[Roman Gilg]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:42 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:

>
> Hi Roman,
>
>
> On 30/08/17 12:24 AM, Roman Gilg wrote:
> >
> > Originating from the bug report
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99702
> >
> > and my own observations with Xwayland misbehaving when outscanning on
> overlay planes, this patch series aims at improving Present support in
> Xwayland.
> >
> > For that it introduces an internal flip mode API to Present, with that
> it's possible to try other Pixmap flips than just for a whole screen like
> before. For Xwayland we add a flip mode per window, but for example in the
> future we could also try to add a mode for flips per CRTC. Anyway the idea
> is to clearly separate different flip modes with their own code paths.
> >
> > In Xwayland we flip per window, and also with the last patch in the
> series use sub-surfaces for that in order to flip on child windows. In my
> tests this was still somewhat fragile.
>
> I made some high level comments based on commit logs. I haven't reviewed
> the patches in detail yet, because it seems difficult unless at least
> some of them are split up:
>
> * Moving code without any functional changes should be in its own patch,
>   not intermixed with functional changes.
>

What do you mean exactly? I put the code moving of present.c to
present_execute.c and present_vblank.c in the separate patch 2. Or should
it not be part of this patch set at all? Or do you mean the moving of code
in patch 1 to present_scrmode.c?

* Only one logical change per patch.


Can you give an example? What do you mean by a logical change. I
partitioned my changes such that they form functional units and such that
every patch is self-contained, i.e. such that the Xserver can work even if
the later ones won't get pushed.

> * Mutter: Neverball framerate capped to 120 (probably Mutter doesn't
> release buffers faster)
>
> Was that with PresentOptionAsync (e.g. via "V-Sync" disabled in the game
> settings, or e.g. vblank_mode=0)? Without PresentOptionAsync, the
> intention is for the presentation frame rate to match the scanout
> refresh rate.


PresentOptionAsync is always on in Xwayland. And I disabled V-Sync in game
(set vblank_mode=0). Although that in game setting makes with my current
patches no difference, since V-Sync regressed for now with this patch
series and only works again when later some mechanism for queuing vblanks,
for example by using the Presentation Time protocol, is added.
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