[Mesa-stable] Nomination of a patch series for stable (virgl/performance)

[Juan A. Suarez Romero]

On Fri, 2018-11-30 at 16:03 +0100, Gert Wollny wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I'd like to nominate the following three patches for stable:
> 
> c0773315af76cd735152c322cb7f710b4b053148
>    virgl: quadruple command
> buffer size
> d18492c64f0abb4eb638d2b213b4b1ff3d775965
>    virgl: avoid large inline transfers
> 89b4798c0619a2ba99046d5ad36f0e6851625f7a 
>    virgl: don't mark buffers as unclean after a write
> 

I've applied all those patches for next 18.2 release.

The last one didn't apply cleanly, so I've resolved the conflicts. You can check
the fixed commit at 

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/644f1941eccab4ef20810f7562771d59d4871932


Take a look to verify it is correct.

Thanks!


	J.A.


> These patches improve 3D performance for virgl users significantly. The
> following numbers were measured running Qemu with virgl on top of a
> r600 (AMD 6870 HD) host:
> 
> ## Unigine Valley (1024x768, Q:High, AA:2x)
> 
>         | FPS avrg |  Score  
> --------------------------------
> before  |   8.2    |   343
> after   |  21.9    |   916
> 
> ## Unigine Heaven (1024x768, Q:High, Tess: Disabled, AA:2x) 
> 
>         | FPS avrg |  Score  
> --------------------------------
> before  | 
> 13.2    |   333
> after   |  32.3    |   790
> 
> 
> many thanks, 
> Gert 
> 
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