[Mesa-users] Mesa on multiple cores?

[hudsonco1 at aol.com]

LLVM is not implemented on Haiku at this time.


Thanks,
- Andrew





-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
To: hudsonco1 <hudsonco1 at aol.com>
Cc: mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Thu, Dec 30, 2010 5:08 am
Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] Mesa on multiple cores?


On 12/27/2010 01:57 PM, hudsonco1 at aol.com wrote:
> Does the current version of Mesa benefit from multiple cores? If so, how
> do you activate this feature?
> I looked but did not see anything in the FAQ or docs.
>
> Benchmarks indicate that 'default' version does not automatically
> benefit from multiple cores. But there is an older reference
> that indicates V2.6 is both thread safe and benefits from them.
>
> The platform is Haiku, which has pthreads.

The Gallium llvmpipe driver is multithreaded and will use all 
available cores.  I don't know if LLVM works on Haiku.  There's no 
other parallelism implemented in Mesa at this time.

-Brian


 
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