[Mesa-dev] Restrictions on redefine_user_buffer()

[Marek Olšák]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been working a bit on optimizing uploads of non-vbo vertex arrays on
> the svga device.
> Since we have no knowledge of the vertex array size before a draw call and
> the vertex array may change values in between subsequent draw calls it's
> pretty pointless to upload the whole array to gpu memory. I basically want
> to upload only the vertices affected by each draw call.
>

This is the same optimization r300g and r600g already have.


>
> Here's where redefine_user_buffer() comes in, but to be able to use it for
> this optimization we must require that a subsequent draw call referencing
> the user buffer must not access any data outside [offset, offset+size-1]. A
> stronger restriction than the comment in the p_context.h header file.
>

The problem is we don't have any other info about user buffers in st/mesa
than the minimum and maximum index. We pass that info to both
redefine_user_buffer and draw_vbo. Whether you use redefine_user_buffer or
pipe_draw_info is up to you. The Radeon drivers chose the latter.

Marek
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