[Mesa-dev] Delayed rendering in st/vdpau

[Christian König]

Hi Thomas,

that's just an optimization. DRI2 can't send buffers allocated by the 
client to the X server for displaying, e.g. all allocations must be done 
by X.

So in the simple case of just rendering directly into the output buffer 
without any advanced filters I just delayed the rendering until we got 
the real displayable buffer from the X server and rendered directly into 
that one.

This saves us an extra copy of the video frames and so quite a bit of 
memory bandwith.

It's not necessary any more with DRI3, so we are on the verge of 
removing that.

Regards,
Christian.

Am 24.10.2016 um 07:03 schrieb Thomas Hellstrom:
> Hi, Christian,
>
> I remember some time ago you briefly explained what the delayed
> rendering in st/vdpau is all about, but I can't seem to find that email.
>
> Could you point me to a description or briefly detail what it is all
> about, and also why it doesn't seem to be needed when vdpau uses filters?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>
>