[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] Xv: free tearing on textured video

[Kristian Høgsberg]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 11:35 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>> > other applications running at the same time.
>>
>> That's a good heuristic, something like 50% of available screen space
>> could work.  Default to 'auto' sounds good to me.
>
> Would it work well enough that we could dispense with any configuration
> (either xorg.conf or runtime)?

I'll have to try it out - I'm not sure what the exact effect of
syncing everything to vblank might be.  For all I know it may not be
noticable at all, except for cases where you do a lot of individual
read backs per frame... time for me to stop waving the hands and try
it.

Kristian