[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/3] glx/dri3: Request non-vsynced Present for swapinterval zero.

[Emil Velikov]

On 11/01/15 08:31, Mathias Fröhlich wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Sunday, January 04, 2015 20:53:59 Emil Velikov wrote:
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>> Adding Mathias and Frank Binns to the Cc list.
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>> So taking into account the discussion so far, including Mathias's input
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>> that the official nvidia driver does the same/similar form of cheating:
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>> - Should we revert on master until a decision(alternative solution) is
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>> available ?
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>> - Curious if we can have some form of consensus on what the next steps
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>> would be.
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> I have not followed this to the final detail, but I had the impression that
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> Mario had put together a way to solve the IMO valid need of his (and
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> others) applications as well as the need for the cheat/optimization which
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> can even be an other type of applications need.
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> What is holding back his suggestion?
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Unless I've misunderstood Keith, he was leaning towards that this is
area in the spec that is unspecified/incomplete and doing this is a hack.
While I see Mario's points of - (a) users expecting such behaviour and
(b) matching what our dri2 code does, I was secretly hoping that we'll
get the agreement from everyone.

If you're have some extra time, patch 5/5 could use love from someone
with knowledge in the area :-)

Thanks
Emil