[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/8] radeonsi: Enable DCC.

[Axel Davy]

On 10/10/2015 17:49, Marek Olšák wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Bas Nieuwenhuizen
> <bas at basnieuwenhuizen.nl> wrote:
>> Hi Marek,
>>
>> The revised series is mostly done. I wanted to do more testing and to
>> try to make sure that the added cache flushes I am doing now (a
>> CACHE_FLUSH event before a fast clear and on switching framebuffers)
>> are the minimal needed.
>>
>>> Also, it looks like we don't need DCC decompression at all, right? It
>>> might be better to get rid of it and only use the 3D engine to access
>>> DCC-encoded surfaces.
>> I still use it for flush_resource. I could make this redundant by
>> sharing the DCC buffer by appending the DCC buffer to the texture
>> resource similarly to how the CMASK is appended to the resource of a
>> MSAA buffer. This has the secondary benefit of not needing to
>> reference as many resources for command submission.
> IIRC, flush_resource is only used for shared (scanout) surfaces where
> DCC is always disabled.
>
> Marek
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I think it's not a very good idea to rely on that.

It may be true for now, but may change in the future:
For example, perhaps some day wayland will tell egl
the app is not fullscreen and that a non-scanoutable buffer
can be used.

Axel Davy