Discussion:
AW: Re: modesetting TearFree / VSYNC aware rotation pageflipping
carsten.behling
2018-10-04 07:56:05 UTC
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Hi Martin,
I already planed to do it very soon if there is no other activity. Shouldn't be so hard to implement. Thank you for syncing with me.
Best regards -Carsten


Von meinem Samsung Galaxy Smartphone gesendet.
TearFree uses separate dedicated scanout buffers, to which the "main"
buffer contents are copied on demand.
Originally, these three things (DRI page flipping, rotation and
TearFree) were separate and mutually exclusive. However, the
amdgpu/radeon drivers support all of them the same time these days; this
still requires an extra copy in some cases, but that could be eliminated
at least in the non-rotated DRI page flipping case.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/merge_requests/24 has the
start of TearFree support for the modesetting driver, but it's still
mutually exclusive with rotation (DRI3 page flipping should work with
TearFree, but may still exhibit tearing if the client/user disables
sync-to-vblank).
Couldn't we extend modesetting in addition to Martin's TearFree patch the
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=798c4fd16d339b1ad5fd729cc884be084c60e38b
Yeah, something like that would be needed.
Carsten,

Would you like to add support for it on top of my branch? I am a bit
swamped but I could be convinced to help you on this if needed :)

Martin

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