XWayland / glamor on virtual machines

[Thomas Hellstrom]

Hi!

I was just starting out to try out XWayland in fedora 21 on top of
gnome/wayland + vmwgfx.
Currently no text is rendered, I'm not sure whether this is a glamor bug
or a vmwgfx GL bug, but in any case, I suspect that using glamor for
xrender acceleration will be very slow, and something we'd like to
avoid. (The overhead of setting up accelerated state and allocating
surfaces on vmwgfx will probably just be too high. But I'll need to get
back with hard figures).

What we would like to do is to use something like SAA, that we are using
in the vmware DDX today, basically we avoid accelerating xrender and
just accelerate copy / composite stuff that originates from the 3D
driver, and that already resides on the host, to avoid readbacks.

Does anybody have a strong feeling against us adding something like that
to XWayland? As I see it, it could probably be implemented in various
ways: It might be possible to reuse parts of Glamor for those operations
where we need to accelerate. It should also be possible to implement
something device-independent for gallium drivers on top of XA.

Any feedback appreciated.

Thanks,
Thomas