[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] Avoid fallbacks for gradient patterns

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 20:51 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Excerpts from Eric Anholt's message of Fri Sep 04 20:35:29 +0100 2009:
> > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 20:26 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > While not yet fully accelerating gradient patterns, by using pixman to
> > > compute the gradient image and copying that to a pixmap to use as the
> > > source, we avoid incurring the GPU stall suffered currently from
> > > reading back the destination surface.
> > 
> > The destination Picture (the one passed in to our uxa hooks) is supposed
> > to always have a pDrawable, and if it doesn't, that should have been
> > caught at a higher level.
> 
> Hmm, didn't explain the problem well enough (or at all in this case).
> The issue is that if asked to composite using a gradient source, and/or
> mask, we fallback to fbComposite, which causes the readback of the
> destination. All this patch does, like uxa_trapezoids(), is to allocate
> a scratch pixmap for the source (or mask) using pixman to fill it and then
> uses CopyArea to transfer that to an offscreen pixmap.

Sorry, I missed that they were in the texture-setup functions.  Looks
good.

-- 
Eric Anholt
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com


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