[Mesa-dev] Very low framerate when recording desktop content in Weston using mesa git on Radeon 5770 (glReadPixels slow path)

[Rune Kjær Svendsen]

Hello list

I'm having problems recording the desktop content using the Weston
compositor's built-in recording function. When I start a recording and do
something that changes a lot of screen content (like zooming in on the
desktop, for example), I get around 0.5 FPS. Using sysprof, I can see that
~98% of CPU is used in the function unpack_XRGB8888(). krh has told me this
is caused by glReadPixels going through a slowpath. I have a Radeon HD 5770
GPU and I'm using mesa git (I've tried the mesa version in the Ubuntu 12.10
repos, and the xorg-edgers PPA, same result).

Does anyone know what the issue could be, or how to debug the problem
further?

Doing some debugging, it seems the call to ctx->Driver.ReadPixels()
in _mesa_ReadnPixelsARB leads to _mesa_readpixels() being called in
readpix.c.

I'm attaching some output of gdb that will hopefully be useful.

I'm also attaching the debug terminal output of running Weston with the DRM
backend.

Let me know if I can provide other useful information.
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