[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/4] drirc: Initial blacklist for adaptive sync

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2018-09-12 2:37 p.m., Kazlauskas, Nicholas wrote:
> On 09/12/2018 04:53 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On 2018-09-11 6:24 p.m., Nicholas Kazlauskas wrote:
>>> Applications that don't present at a predictable rate (ie. not games)
>>> shouldn't have adapative sync enabled. This list covers some of the
>>> common desktop compositors and some web browsers.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas at amd.com>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>   +        <application name="Chromium" executable="chromium">
>>> +            <option name="adaptive_sync_enable" value="false" />
>>> +        </application>
>>> +        <application name="Google Chrome" executable="chrome">
>>> +            <option name="adaptive_sync_enable" value="false" />
>>> +        </application>
>>
>> Should probably add Firefox here as well, executable name "firefox".
> 
> When I tested Firefox I didn't see any requests to enable adaptive sync
> but I would imagine it would exhibit similar behavior if it did.

Did you enable HW acceleration in about:config? It's still disabled by
default on Linux. When enabled, it uses OpenGL for compositing its
window contents, and can use page flipping in fullscreen.


On a similar note, a few more compositors could be added as well. Off
the top of my head: compiz (and/or whatever is Unity 7's process name),
compton, xfwm4, mutter


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