[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/20] Mesa: Reducing sizes of gl_context etc.

[Nicolai Hähnle]

On 21.11.2017 19:01, Marek Olšák wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series reduces sizes of many driver structures. For example:
> 
> gl_context: 152488 -> 72944 bytes
> vbo_context: 22696 -> 20008 bytes
> st_context: 10120 ->  3704 bytes
> 
> The idea is to decrease CPU cache usage on smaller CPUs. I have not
> noticed a performance difference with microbenchmarks. It might be
> a different story with complex apps.
> 
> There are some good cleanups as well as some controversial changes,
> so some piglit regressions are to be expected, but we can change
> piglit not to test those silly cases if we all agree that this is
> the right thing to do. Feel free to discuss them on the commit
> threads.
> 
> Branch for testing:
>      git://people.freedesktop.org/~mareko/mesa context-reduce-size
> 
> Expected piglit failures where piglit might need changes:
> - spec/!openg 1.3/texunits
> - spec/arb_viewport_array/viewport-indices

Can you explain where these failures come from?

Will look at the patches themselves later / tomorrow.

Cheers,
Nicolai


> 
> Please review.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marek
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