[PATCH] drm/atomic-helper: Skip vblank waits for unchanged fbs

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Mon Nov 24 11:42:42 PST 2014


Especially with legacy cursor ioctls existing userspace assumes that
you can pile up lots of updates in one go. The super-proper way to
support this would be a special commit mode which overwrites the last
update. But getting there will be quite a bit of work.

Meanwhile do what pretty much all the drivers have done for the plane
update functions: Simply skip the vblank wait for the buffer cleanup
if the buffer is the same. Since the universal cursor plane code will
not recreate framebuffers needlessly this allows us to not slow down
legacy pageflip events while someone moves the cursor around.

v2: Drop the async plane update hunk from a previous attempt at this
issue.

v3: Fix up kerneldoc.

Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
Cc: "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre at mecheye.net>
Reviewed-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
index fad2b932cf72..ac4795f720cb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
@@ -754,6 +754,30 @@ static void wait_for_fences(struct drm_device *dev,
 	}
 }
 
+static bool framebuffer_changed(struct drm_device *dev,
+				struct drm_atomic_state *old_state,
+				struct drm_crtc *crtc)
+{
+	struct drm_plane *plane;
+	struct drm_plane_state *old_plane_state;
+	int nplanes = old_state->dev->mode_config.num_total_plane;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nplanes; i++) {
+		plane = old_state->planes[i];
+		old_plane_state = old_state->plane_states[i];
+
+		if (plane->state->crtc != crtc &&
+		    old_plane_state->crtc != crtc)
+			continue;
+
+		if (plane->state->fb != old_plane_state->fb)
+			return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 /**
  * drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks - wait for vblank on crtcs
  * @dev: DRM device
@@ -761,7 +785,9 @@ static void wait_for_fences(struct drm_device *dev,
  *
  * Helper to, after atomic commit, wait for vblanks on all effected
  * crtcs (ie. before cleaning up old framebuffers using
- * drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes())
+ * drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes()). It will only wait on crtcs where the
+ * framebuffers have actually changed to optimize for the legacy cursor and
+ * plane update use-case.
  */
 void
 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks(struct drm_device *dev,
@@ -787,6 +813,9 @@ drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks(struct drm_device *dev,
 		if (!crtc->state->enable)
 			continue;
 
+		if (!framebuffer_changed(dev, old_state, crtc))
+			continue;
+
 		ret = drm_crtc_vblank_get(crtc);
 		if (ret != 0)
 			continue;
-- 
2.1.1



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