[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/5] mesa: implement GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info

[Erik Faye-Lund]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Roland Scheidegger <sroland at vmware.com> wrote:
> Does anyone use these extensions?
> I suppose maybe to get the total amount of video memory?

I've used them in a commercial data-visualization application. The
purpose was to get the total amount of video memory, so we'd know
roughly how much data we should try to keep around in memory before
paging to main RAM or disk.