Re: [PATCH] drm: add capability DRM_CAP_ASYNC_UPDATE

[Michel DÃnzer]

On 2018-12-20 6:38 p.m., Kazlauskas, Nicholas wrote:
> On 12/20/18 12:09 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 6:03 PM Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 11:54 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not sure about the gamma thing since we had opposite bugs on i915
>>>> about gamma not being vsynced and tearing terribly. Cursor is special
>>>> since it tends to be too small to notice tearing.
>>>
>>> Our cursor hw (and possibly gamma as well Nicholas?  Harry?) is double
>>> buffered, so we can update it any time for the most part and the
>>> changes won't take affect until the next vupdate period.
> 
> I haven't really investigated too much into the gamma stuttering issue, 
> but I think it's similar to the cursor update - a high volume of atomic 
> updates that ends up skipping over a vblank or two.

FWIW, I don't think the use-cases described in
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/108917 (Night Light / RedShift) involve a
particularly high volume of gamma updates. I was able to reproduce the
stuttering with ~10 gamma changes per second, but I suspect even a
single one could cause a frame drop. I assume the issue is that gamma
updates are done as separate atomic commits, which can delay other
commits for page flips.


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