[RFC PATCH v3 0/4] Deliver vGPU display vblank event to userspace
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Jun 27 06:22:31 UTC 2019
Hi,
> Instead of delivering page flip events, we choose to post display vblank
> event. Handling page flip events for both primary plane and cursor plane
> may make user space quite busy, although we have the mask/unmask mechansim
> for mitigation. Besides, there are some cases that guest app only uses
> one framebuffer for both drawing and display. In such case, guest OS won't
> do the plane page flip when the framebuffer is updated, thus the user
> land won't be notified about the updated framebuffer.
What happens when the guest is idle and doesn't draw anything to the
framebuffer?
cheers,
Gerd
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