[Mesa-dev] [PATCH RFC 4/4] dri: Turn of a couple of glx extensions for gnome-shell on vmwgfx.

[Thomas Hellstrom]

Increases performance on vmwgfx since we're avoiding full buffer damage and
since we can't sync to vertical retrace anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
---
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc
index 14d7713..a8f2ccf 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc
@@ -137,4 +137,11 @@ TODO: document the other workarounds.
             <option name="glsl_zero_init" value="true"/>
         </application>
     </device>
+    <!-- vmwgfx doesn't like full buffer swaps and can't sync to vertical retraces.-->
+    <device driver="vmwgfx">
+        <application name="gnome-shell" executable="gnome-shell">
+            <option name="glx_disable_ext_buffer_age" value="true" />
+            <option name="glx_disable_oml_sync_control" value="true" />
+        </application>
+    </device>
 </driconf>
-- 
2.7.4