[Mesa-dev] Question about display_gpu and render gpu in dri3_create_screen

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2021-09-13 14:40, Luc Ma wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently tried multi-GPU support on the mesa gallium drivers(glx=dri). When I exported the env `DRI_PRIME=1`, I found that it didn't work with two different drivers loaded at the same time.
> because there are different driver names in my case. display_gpu driver name is "r600" while render_gpu driver name is "nouveau". It failed to create display gpu screen
> 
> if (strcmp(driverName, driverNameDisplayGPU) == 0) {
>             psc->driScreenDisplayGPU =
>                psc->image_driver->createNewScreen2(screen, psc->fd_display_gpu,
>                                                    pdp->loader_extensions,
>                                                    extensions,
>                                                    &driver_configs, psc);
> }
> 
> so I am wondering
> 
> - is it possible to use two GPUs from different vendors on a system with gallium? one is for display, another for rendering
> - is it possible to use two GPUs driven by a shared driver(say both "r600") on a system?

Both should work.


Did you hit a problem other than psc->driScreenDisplayGPU related code being skipped (as is expected ATM with different drivers)?


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