[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2] glsls: Modify exec_list to avoid strict-aliasing violations

[Davin McCall]

On 25/06/15 14:32, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06/25/2015 03:53 PM, Davin McCall wrote:
>> On 25/06/15 12:27, Eero Tamminen wrote:
>>> On 06/25/2015 02:48 AM, Davin McCall wrote:
>>>> In terms of performance:
>>>>
>>>> (export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1; time glmark2)
>>>
>>> For Intel driver, INTEL_NO_HW=1 could be used.
>>>
>>> (Do other drivers have something similar?)
>>
>> Unfortunately I do not have an Intel display set up.
>
> If you can get libINTEL_DEVID_OVERRIDEdrm to use libdrm_intel, you can 
> fake desired
> InteL HW to Mesa with INTEL_DEVID_OVERRIDE environment variable.
>
> Similarly to INTEL_NO_HW, it prevents batches from being submitted
> to GPU.
>

Ok, thanks, I'll look into this shortly. Any pointers on how to get 
libdrm to use libdrm_intel?


>
> When testing 3D driver CPU side optimizations, one should either use 
> test specifically written for testing driver CPU overhead (proprietary 
> benchmarks have such tests) or force test-case to be CPU bound e.g. 
> with INTEL_NO_HW.
>

Understood. The 'user' time divided by the glmark2 score should however 
give a relative indication of the CPU processing required per frame, right?

Davin