[Spice-devel] xf86-video-qxl performance

[Nahum Shalman]

Jeremy White wrote:
> I need to improve the performance of the xf86-video-qxl driver; aka
> xspice; by a fairly substantial margin.
>
> I've set up a test case - LibreOffice over an 80 ms latency connection -
> that demonstrates that it's got quite a long way to go.  (The current
> case appears to suffer from an excessive set of draw fill operations).

We were seeing some bad performance from Firefox as compared with Chrome.
Recompiling the xorg driver with the offscreen surfaces disabled 
eliminated the performance discrepancy.

I'd be curious if you would see an improvement in LibreOffice 
performance by doing the same thing...

-Nahum