Mesa (master): dri: Turn of a couple of glx extensions for gnome-shell on vmwgfx.

Thomas Hellstrom thomash at kemper.freedesktop.org
Wed Jun 7 17:48:11 UTC 2017


Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: 37e8341db4e9618fcd874c52aca57579f639bfe8
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=37e8341db4e9618fcd874c52aca57579f639bfe8

Author: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Date:   Fri May  5 06:26:03 2017 -0700

dri: Turn of a couple of glx extensions for gnome-shell on vmwgfx.

Increases performance on vmwgfx since we're avoiding full buffer damage and
since we can't sync to vertical retrace anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>

---

 src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc
index d820462fad..b6c3c6a5db 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc
@@ -152,4 +152,11 @@ TODO: document the other workarounds.
             <option name="glsl_zero_init" value="true"/>
         </application>
     </device>
+    <!-- vmwgfx doesn't like full buffer swaps and can't sync to vertical retraces.-->
+    <device driver="vmwgfx">
+        <application name="gnome-shell" executable="gnome-shell">
+            <option name="glx_disable_ext_buffer_age" value="true" />
+            <option name="glx_disable_oml_sync_control" value="true" />
+        </application>
+    </device>
 </driconf>




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